A mother is speaking out as she tries to encourage lawmakers to stiffen penalties for criminals caught attaching a tiny device to their Glock to make it a machine gun.

Two Starkville men were recently sentenced on federal charges related to illegal machine gun conversion devices, commonly known as “glock switches.” Austin Hudson, also known as “Mop Sossa,” age ...

Jefferson County’s District Attorney and Crime Stoppers both say officers are serious about enforcing this law.

This is the second arrest of a teenager with a Glock switch in Birmingham since Gov. Kay Ivey signed a statewide ban on machine gun conversion devices into law just over two weeks ago.