Earlier this month, U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco announced an initiative to help combat the alarming proliferation of machine gun conversion devices (MCDs), commonly referred to as ...

Justice Department officials said Friday that they plan to increase efforts to locate devices used to convert semiautomatic pistols and rifles into more powerful machine guns and federally prosecute ...

In New Mexico, police and prosecutors backed an effort to outlaw devices that convert pistols into machine guns. In Alabama, the governor made it a priority. Lawmakers in both states — one led by ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. In New Mexico, police and prosecutors backed ...