Kansas judge throws out machine gun possession charge, cites …
Aug 23, 2024 · A federal judge in Kansas has tossed out a machine gun possession charge and questioned if bans on the weapons violate the Second Amendment. If upheld on appeal, the ruling by U.S. District Judge John W. Broomes in Wichita could have a sweeping impact on the regulation of machine guns, including homemade automatic weapons that many police and ...
Illegal homemade machine guns cause surge in US gun violence | AP News
Mar 9, 2024 · Laws against machine guns date back to the bloody violence of Prohibition-era gangsters. But the proliferation of devices known by nicknames such as Glock switches, auto sears and chips has allowed people to transform legal semi-automatic weapons into even more dangerous guns, helping fuel gun violence, police and federal authorities said.
Machine-gun conversion device dubbed 'Glock switches' taking ... - ABC News
Jun 12, 2024 · Law enforcement officials said the machine-gun conversion devices -- also called "auto sear" -- are believed to be mostly manufactured overseas and sold on the internet.
US judge tosses machine gun possession case, calls ban …
Aug 23 (Reuters) - A federal judge has dismissed charges against a Kansas man for possessing a machine gun, saying prosecutors failed to establish that a federal ban on owning such weapons is...
A tiny, cheap device lets criminals create their own machine guns
Dec 6, 2023 · Handguns and rifles illegally modified with devices called “Glock switches” to become machine guns have proliferated, officials say. The devices are tiny, cheap and easy to install.
Biden to sign order on machine gun devices, shooter drills - USA …
Sep 26, 2024 · White House officials said the executive order will target machine gun conversion devices that turn regular firearms into machine guns that fire fully automatic, plus 3D-printed guns that...
Judge Issues Shock Machine Gun Ruling - HuffPost
Aug 27, 2024 · A federal judge recognized a 22-year-old Kansan’s Second Amendment right to own machine guns last week. U.S. District Judge John Broomes’ ruling is the latest in a series of contradictory interpretations of gun rights stemming from the Supreme Court’s sweeping reinterpretation of the Second Amendment in the 2022 case of New York State ...
Handguns converted to high-capacity machine guns fuel deadly ... - NPR
Oct 28, 2022 · A thumbnail-size "switch" turns a gun from semi-automatic to automatic. Authorities see a correlation between an uptick in mass shootings and the rise of switch-equipped guns and extended...
How the bump stock ban overturn could affect machine guns in …
Jun 14, 2024 · The U.S. Supreme Court today overturned a federal ban on bump stocks, the devices that can attach to a semi-automatic rifle to make it fire as fast as a machine gun -- potentially hundreds of...
Federal agents, prosecutors going after machine-gun conversion …
May 23, 2023 · Federal law enforcement officials say 26 people in Tennessee have been recently convicted or face charges for possessing “switches,” devices that convert semi-automatic firearms into a machine guns.