Federal agents have seen a spike in switches across the United States. ATF seized 5,454 machine gun converters between 2017 and 2021, up by 570% from between 2012 to 2016. In Texas alone, ATF ...

MARTINSBURG, W.Va. – In the basement research lab of the agency that regulates America's firearms, two dozen 3D printers hummed, stringing thermoplastic filament into computer-designed patterns ...

Before the famous M2 Browning Machine Gun, there was the Colt Model 1924 Automatic Machine Gun. Here's a look at an original operating manual for the gun from the American Rifleman Tech Files.

The Associated Press. Law enforcement leans on 3D-printer industry to help thwart machine gun conversion devices. Posted: September 6, 2024 | Last updated: February 25, 2025 ...

“Depending on your 3D printer’s speed, it takes an average of 40 minutes to print one of these machine gun conversion devices.” Iber noted that these devices have become more common among ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) - Two men from Colorado Springs are accused in a nationwide machine gun scheme. Federal agents say the pair was running an operation where they 3D printed machine ...

CRAWFORD COUNTY, Ga. - A Georgia technical college student is facing up to a decade in prison after officials say he 3D printed a machine gun in his bedroom. On Monday, 20-year-old Jaden Michael ...

Prosecutors say Jaden Michael-William Pope, 20, admitted to making multiple machine guns and silencers in his bedroom using a 3D printer. Under federal law , only specially licensed gun ...

The FMDA 19.2, released in 2021, is a relatively old model by 3D-printed-gun standards, ... To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine.

Morgan was accused of possessing a model AM-15 .300-caliber machine gun and a machine gun conversion device known as a “Glock switch” that can make a semi-automatic weapon fire like a machine gun.

Homemade firearms are spreading faster than governments can keep up. For many gun designers, that’s the idea. By Thomas Gibbons-Neff Thomas Gibbons-Neff writes about guns and gun culture. He ...