Court documents claim the founder of Glock, Inc., Gaston Glock, marketed his new Glock 17 pistol by installing an auto sear and firing it with fully automatic bursts during a demonstration in ...

The auto sear, or “Glock switch,” converts a handgun into a weapon that fires 120 rounds a minute. The lawsuit wants Glock to reject such a capabiliity.

Police Chief Brian O’Hara said of the 153 firearms recovered with a switch, 126 of those were Glock firearms. A similar lawsuit was filed by the City of Chicago in March 2024.

Maryland leaders want to ban semi-automatic weapons that can be made fully-automatic with "switches", or auto-sear attachments. Latest U.S.

An auto-sear, or "Glock switch," is pictured at the end of a handgun. When a suspect killed Brackenridge Police Chief Justin McIntire in January 2023, ...

The ATF and Cincinnati police said Wednesday that they are finding guns illegally modified to make them fully automatic on a weekly basis. Also called a "chip" or "auto sear," it's a small device ...

Glock switches, an illegal automatic weapon, are more common in Macon, Georgia, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said. ... The 1-inch square mechanism, known as an auto sear or Glock switch, ...

City police in the last two years have recovered nearly 1,200 Glock pistols equipped with auto sear devices, all associated with a range of crimes, including homicides, according to city officials.

The shooting, which left four dead and 17 injured, is just the latest spurt of mass violence made possible by the small part known as a “conversion device,” “Glock switch” or “auto sear.” ...

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.

Court documents claim the founder of Glock, Inc., Gaston Glock, marketed his new Glock 17 pistol by installing an auto sear and firing it with fully automatic bursts during a demonstration in ...