3D printers turn handguns into machine guns for as little as 40 cents
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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 thirty-plus rounds in seconds.
They have been involved in some high-profile cases, including one in Alabama, where investigators found a Glock switch at the scene of a shooting at a Sweet 16 party that left four dead. DOJ and ATF officials recently met with gun manufacturers, academics and law enforcement to combat the production of these conversion devices.
ATF officials took Fox News on a tour of its National Service Center in West Virginia, where they demonstrated to journalists how these machine gun devices are illegally made and the devastating damage they can inflict.
Glock switches are showing up at more and more crime scenes. They allow five rounds to turn into 50 with a simple click. These conversion devices account for the majority of illegal weapons recovered in trafficking cases, ATF officials told Fox News.