CHICAGO (CBS) --Citing a surge in the number of firearms being illegally converted into machine guns, Cook County State's Attorney Eileen O'Neill Burke has ordered prosecutors to seek a prison ...

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In New Mexico, police and prosecutors backed an effort to outlaw devices that convert pistols into machine guns. In Alabama, the governor made it a priority. Lawmakers in both states — one led by ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 24-year-old Kansas City man was sentenced in federal court for possessing and transferring three machine gun conversion devices. Demetrius Harris, also known as “Meech,” was ...

A Bexar County man who federal authorities say sold a machine gun-type weapon to a confidential informant has been sentenced to two years in prison. Jaime Sandoval Jr. pleaded guilty in January to one ...

THE ELDER OFFUTT WAS ARRESTED WEEKS LATER. THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE CALLS IT AN EMERGING THREAT. MACHINE GUN CONVERSION DEVICES. WLKY MADISON ELLIOTT WAS IN FRANKFORT TODAY, AS LOUISVILLE’S POLICE ...

When Chicago police responded to a shots-fired call at Riis Park in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood on a May afternoon, witnesses told them a young man standing next to a scooter had fired a gun onto ...

The jungles of Vietnam served as proving grounds for guns like the M16 and variations of the minigun American arms used throughout the conflict gained iconic status among soldiers and the general ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A 22-year-old Kansas City ...

In New Mexico, police and prosecutors backed an effort to outlaw devices that convert pistols into machine guns. In Alabama, the governor made it a priority. Lawmakers in both states — one led by ...

FILE - A semi-automatic pistol with a conversion device installed making it fully automatic is fired as four empty shell casings fly out of the weapon, at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and ...