Former Idaho State Museum director Ken Swanson explains some of the Thompson submachine guns, or “Tommy guns,” on display at the J. Curtis Earl Weapons Exhibit at the Old Idaho Penitentiary in Boise.

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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 ...

The U.S. Justice Department has launched a task force to stop the proliferation of machine guns because of a rapid increase in illegal conversion devices. According to the ATF's website, the Firearm ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A tiny device called a switch can turn a Glock handgun into a weapon of war, and law enforcement says they’re infiltrating the Mid-South. The official name is a machine gun conversion ...

"These are weapons of war," said the dad of a teen killed in a hail of 89 shots. Just weeks before he was killed along with three others in a hail of gunfire at a Sweet 16 birthday party in Dadeville, ...

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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 ...