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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 50 machine gun conversion devices found stashed in a DoorDash bag led to the arrests of four men on federal charges in Montgomery. A fifth person is facing state charges in connection with ...

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 ...

For the first half of the 20th century, one of the most important firearms in the U.S. military arsenal was the water-cooled ...

Assault weapons and hand guns seen for sale at Capitol City Arms Supply on Jan. 16, 2013, in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman, File) CINCINNATI (CN) — Machine guns are atypical weapons not ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated.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. In New Mexico, police and prosecutors backed ...