INDIANAPOLIS — Criminals are turning one of the world's most popular handguns into what prosecutors are calling a machine gun. They do it by using a tiny, but incredibly dangerous, attachment called a ...

When Jorge Leon invented at the age of 22 a small device that turns Glock pistols into fully automatic weapons, he said he intended it to be used for the good of society, to help the military and ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is suing gun manufacturer Glock, Inc., claiming the company has known for decades how easily its semi-automatic handguns could be converted to ...

BATON ROUGE, La. -- Within seconds of adding a small device to a pistol, a gun goes from shooting one bullet at a time to firing off 1,200 bullets per minute. "It's bad because they pose a significant ...

In 1987, a 22-year-old Venezuelan named Jorge Leon invented a small metal insert that could turn the Glock 17 semi-automatic pistol into a fully automatic machine gun with the flick of a switch. Leon ...

The ATF and Cincinnati police said Wednesday that they are finding guns illegally modified to make them fully automatic on a weekly basis. What is a Glock switch? Also called a "chip" or "auto sear," ...

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey and Minnesota sued Glock on Thursday, calling on the gunmaker to stop selling firearms that can be adapted with dime-sized switches to fire up to 1,200 rounds a minute.