The California Assembly has passed a bill to ban GLOCK pistols, citing the threat of mass shootings from easily converted ...

Getty Images The Minnesota case also sought an injunction directing Glock to design safer handguns, and New Jersey asked the court to prevent the company from distributing easily modified guns in ...

The press release said the function to become a machine gun was "built into Glock's design." Switch manufacturers often print Glock logos on their products, which leads consumers to believe they ...

A tiny, cheap device known as a "Glock switch" or a "machine gun conversion device" allows criminals to convert a handgun into a machine gun and unleash 30-plus rounds in seconds, federal ...

"Glock could fix this problem by changing its handgun design to prevent the easy conversion of legal handguns into illegal machine guns. But Glock has chosen not to do so," the suit continues.

Credit: AP/Alex Brandon 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 ...

Ellison and O’Hara said some 65% of guns on the street are Glocks and that the manufacturer could easily fix the conversion problem with a design ... a switch attached to that same Glock ...

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin says Glock's popular 9mm handgun is easily converted into an illegal machine gun with what's known as a Glock switch. "A switch enables a Glock to ...

"Glock has known about this problem for decades and has done nothing a change of design could prevent these ... Law enforcement has tied the so-called "Glock switch" to a rise in violence across ...

It's because of a machine gun conversion device, a small piece of plastic also known as a "switch" or "Glock switch." With the switch, which can turn a standard semi-automatic handgun into a fully ...

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.” ...

Baltimore officials have filed a lawsuit against firearms manufacturer Glock, demanding that the Austrian ... device more commonly known as a “Glock switch.” Though the company does not ...