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3D printing makes dangerous 'Glock switch' devices easier to get, ATF says. Miguel Torres. Arizona Republic "Glock switches," small devices capable of turning almost any handgun into a machine gun ...
Crime Roxbury men charged with selling 3D-printed devices that turn guns into automatic weapons So-called "Glock switches" allow guns to fire multiple rounds with a single pull of the trigger.
A routine traffic stop in Guntersville led to the arrest of a Boaz man and the discovery of a homemade 3D-printed fully ...
BOAZ, Ala. — A Boaz man found himself in jail after a traffic stop yielded a homemade 3D printed fully automatic gun in his ...
Officials said switches are illegally imported from overseas or 3D-printed locally. Because the devices can be made from plastic on a 3D printer, it means the files to make them can easily be ...
In an interview with investigators, Brautigan admitted to making the guns and Glock switches using a 3D printer, prosecutors said, adding the 11 Glock switches seized from the Boone County ...
From these addresses, police retrieved a 3D printer and enough parts to readily assemble 16 Glock switches. They also allegedly found tools used to cut and modify quarters as part of the creation ...
A Glock switch turns your average pistol into a machine gun and you can 3D print them. Within seconds of adding a small device to a pistol, a gun goes from shooting one bullet at a time to firing ...
Zachary Myers, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana also spoke saying that while advancements in technology, like 3D printing, open the world up to a lot of good. They can also enable ...
And while the idea of producing Glock chips on a 3D printer may seem exotic, Costello said it is not a particularly sophisticated task. “They can be made almost anywhere by almost anyone,” he ...
INDIANAPOLIS — A Franklin man will spend two years in federal prison for 3D printing and trafficking firearms and Glock switches. During the investigation, 28-year-old Alexander Clark was seen selling ...
A man from Indianapolis was sentenced to seven and a half years in federal prison for 3D printing and selling glock switches. INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — An Indianapolis trafficker was sentenced to seven ...