“If [local law enforcement] don’t have the ability to arrest on the Glock switch charge at the state level, then that means that we have to come in, find that individual, try to get a warrant ...

A Glock switch is one type of a machine gun conversion device. It's a metal or plastic piece, about the size of a coin, that attaches to the back of Glock pistol, a brand that is popular with both ...

Glock switches, an illegal automatic weapon, are more common in Macon, Georgia, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said. Where & how the shootings happen ...

A device known as a Glock switch sits next to a quarter on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023, at the Baton Rouge Police Department Firearm Training Range in Zachary, Louisiana.

Glock switches - also known as auto sears or a button or a giggle switch - can unleash 20 rounds per second or 1,200 rounds a minute. Up until the new Alabama law, the federal government ...

Glock switches were against federal laws, but not state laws. So if you were arrested with one in Alabama, you’d only be charged if federal prosecutors got involved. That didn’t always happen. Since ...

“This Glock 4-5 came with a switch… Put your hands in the air, it’s a stick-up,” 21 Savage says in the song. “ Like That ,” by rappers Future, Kendrick Lamar and Metro Boomin, also ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — The Birmingham Police Department announced the arrest of a juvenile who was allegedly in possession of a Glock switch. Officers say the 15-year-old suspect was taken ...

As of March, possession of Glock switch devices now is illegal under state law. And even though law enforcement officers in Mobile County have not yet made an arrest under the new statute ...

Once he was stopped, officers found a gun "equipped with an illegal auto sear," commonly known as a Glock switch. The illegal devices can transform a regular handgun into a machine gun.

As of March 19, 2025, possession of a Glock switch could now result in a prison sentence of up to 10 years. “State law gives a local tool to our Birmingham police that, when they capture someone ...