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Switches are small devices with the capability of turning commercially available firearms into fully automatic weapons.

The devices are small and cheap, and they make semiautomatic guns fire like machine guns

SAN ANTONIO – U.S. Attorneys are cracking down on a tool that can be used to convert a handgun into a machine gun. It goes by many names and is most-commonly kn

A table full of seized guns, pistols and other firearms were displayed for media on Thursday in this border town to show off the spoils of a federal joint operation that officials say is proving successful in stopping weapons from going from the United States to Mexico.

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Jacobe De Leon O Shea Ferguson, 30, is charged with arson causing bodily injury or death

According to one officer, it can take a week or more for police to respond to a report of a stolen firearm.

With thousands of guns going missing, and problems coordinating with police, some local gun businesses are concerned.

MIT Associate Professor Heather Kulik is an explorer in the sprawling universe of possible chemical combination. The chemical engineer embraces computer models as “the only way to make a dent” in the vast number of potential materials that could solve important problems.