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 ...

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 machine guns but ...

A Lego-sized tool that turns an ordinary handgun into an automatic machine gun-like weapon is commonly used in Macon shootings, according to the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office. The 1-inch square ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Jorge Leon invented at the age of 22 a small device that turns Glock pistols into fully automatic weapons, he said he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kentucky would enact a state ban against a thumbnail-sized device that can convert semi-automatic handguns into automatics under a ...

In January federal agents tracing the origins of components that turn handguns into automatic weapons were led to a modest home in Roxbury. There, in a back bedroom of his mother’s apartment, federal ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison says his office is suing Georgia-based weapon manufacturer Glock Inc. for turning a "blind eye, again and again" to the carnage in recent ...

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 ...

CHICAGO (CBS) -- U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Tuesday that its officers seized more than 1,500 devices to turn weapons fully automatic throughout last year. The agency said its ...