At least half of U.S. states now outlaw devices that can convert pistols into machine guns. Alabama and New Mexico are the ...

The Herstal, Belgium, firm of Anciens Etablissements Pieper was apparently expecting big things when, in 1908, it named its ...

Republicans and Democrats agree that outlawing the small, cheap and easy-to-install modifications, also called auto-sears, is ...

Handguns — specifically semi-automatic pistols — are far and away the most popular type of firearm in the United States. Data from the federal government shows that over 3.9 million pistols ...

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 ...

similar to a factory-made machine gun. FILE – Two semi-automatic pistols are displayed for a photograph, one with a conversion device installed making it fully automatic, at the Bureau of ...

similar to a factory-made machine gun. The use of auto sears spiked in the past decade, partly because they can be made inexpensively with 3D printers. From 2012 to 2016, just 814 machine gun ...

Other brands of pistols that mimic Glocks also can be converted to machine guns. So can some semiautomatic rifles. Such conversion devices also are referred to as auto sears, selector switches or ...