Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke has directed prosecutors to seek prison sentences in every felony case involving machine gun-type weapons, according to a new policy circulated to her ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON (SOA) — There are small devices that can enable a gun to spray up to 900 bullets a minute. They’re widely referred to as Machine Gun Conversion Devices. One type, called a Forced Reset ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A month after a federal judge dismissed machine gun possession charges in Kansas based on the Second Amendment, federal ...

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 ...

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 ...

Until manufacturers take reasonable steps to prevent their guns from being illegally converted, the guns shouldn't be sold in New York. A 3D-printed "Glock switch" is seen in Houston in 2022. The ...

A U.S. District Court judge in Kansas on Wednesday dismissed machine gun possession charges against a defendant, finding that prosecutors hadn’t proven the weapons can be banned under the Second ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — A D.C. man has been charged with a felony act of possessing a machine gun -- becoming the first person convicted at trial under the Secure DC Omnibus Amendment Act of 2024 law.

The Monterey County Sheriff's Office said it confiscated several firearms, including a machine gun, during a traffic stop on Sunday evening. A sheriff's office spokesperson said that a female driver ...

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 ...