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“Switches” convert regular handguns into automatic machine guns.

Springfield Police have a warning about a dangerous attachment they’re seeing on guns called a Glock switch that turns semi-automatic weapons into machine guns.

The 22News I-Team takes a look at how people are getting illegal glock switches that can turn a hand gun into an automatic weapon.

A Massachusetts State Trooper stopped a motorist from Arkansas in South Boston early Sunday morning.

A Holyoke man has pleaded guilty to illegally possessing a firearm as a convicted felon on Thursday in Springfield federal court.

Police said the woman and her husband were drunk when she shot and killed the parrot using a .380 Glock inside their home.

A man from Holyoke was arrested after police issued a search warrant on his home discovering a large number of drugs and money.

The Springfield Police Department seized a total of four firearms which included three “ghost guns” on Saturday.

The Massachusetts State Police seized five illegal firearms during traffic stops in Springfield and Chicopee in the last three weeks.

A man from Holyoke was indicted in Springfield for illegally possessing a firearm.

A man in Greenfield has been arrested and is facing several charges after police seized a ghost gun from him Saturday.

Five men were arrested Saturday night that led to the seizure of six guns, one of which is classified as an assault weapon.

A Providence man is facing 11 charges after being arrested for allegedly operating under the influence early Saturday morning.

A Holyoke man was arrested Thursday for attempted murder charges in connection to a shooting on Main Street.

A Springfield man was arrested after police seized drugs and a firearm during a traffic stop in Whately on Tuesday.

Springfield police have seized five firearms, including an unfinished ghost gun, as well as a trafficking amount of heroin and cocaine following three search warrants throughout the city Tuesday.

An Agawam man has been sentenced to prison in connection with trafficking cocaine, heroin and fentanyl out of a motel in Vermont.

A Pittsfield man was sentenced to prison for illegal possession of a firearm and a large-capacity feeding device after officers found him unconscious in his car.

Oregon romance novelist Nancy Crampton Brophy, who once wrote a blog post on “How to Murder Your Husband,” was found guilty Wednesday of murdering her husband.

A Springfield man was arrested Thursday after a firearm and hundreds of baggies of suspect heroin/fentanyl were seized from his vehicle.

The man charged in a shooting death at the Holyoke Mall on Saturday had a license to carry (LTC) a gun according to court records.

A Stoughton man pleaded guilty in Boston to possessing illegal firearms on Monday.

An Enfield man was arrested Halloween night after he allegedly pulled a gun after a fight with the parents of trick-or-treaters.

A Springfield man was arrested Thursday after police found a firearm in his possession.

Massachusetts State Police Troopers arrested man with a gun, drugs, and a stolen vehicle on I-90 (Massachusetts Turnpike) in Russell.

In connection with a scheme to illegally straw-purchase firearms, three individuals, including a Federal Firearms Licensee, have been charged.

STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Law enforcement officials have revealed more details regarding items seized from the Pennsylvania home where they arrested a graduate student charged with stabbing four University of Idaho students to death. Additional court documents made public Thursday stated that a knife, a pocketknife, and a Glock 22 handgun with three empty magazines […]

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro has drawn surprised comments after a gust of wind revealed that he carries a gun tucked in his belt. Ziobro was laying a wreath at a monument to victims of mining disasters in central Poland on Monday when the Glock pistol came into view. Poland, like […]

Two men from Chicopee and Holyoke were arrested on Saturday after an investigation into illegal firearms.

A Boston man is facing firearm and drug charges after a traffic stop early Monday morning.

Holyoke detectives attempted to pull over a vehicle for failing to stop for a stop sign. After a brief chase, a 22-year-old was arrested for several firearm charges.

A man from East Longmeadow was indicted Tuesday on fentanyl and firearm charges.

A Tennessee woman shopping at a church rummage sale accidentally bought a loaded Glock 23, believing it was an airsoft gun.

Daniel Augusto of Holyoke allegedly illegally possessed more than 40 machine guns and conversion devices, short-barred rifles, other weapons, and silencers.

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A retired U.S. Army soldier was arrested and has been in detention in Zimbabwe for a week charged with trying to board a plane with a loaded and unregistered pistol, state media reported Tuesday. Ronald Leon Johnson was arrested Feb. 15 as he checked in at Robert Mugabe Airport in the […]

When asked how much marijuana was in the car, the driver handed authorities a still burning joint and said, “this much.”

CLAREMONT, the Bronx (PIX11) — An NYPD officer was shot while on patrol in the Bronx Tuesday night, police said. Officer Dennis Vargas, 32, and another officer from the 42nd Precinct were patrolling the streets in Claremont around 10:45 p.m. when they began to approach a man on the sidewalk south of Third Avenue and […]

Deputies arrested a Florida man after they said he tried to bring a gun and extra magazines into Disney Springs on May 27.

Healey is leading a lawsuit to hold gun manufacturers and dealers to the same standards as U.S. citizens.

Charges have been filed against a South Carolina gun shop owner who fatally shot a friend after mistaking a Glock 17 for a BB gun, according to police.

Ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson on Tuesday testified that former President Trump and his former chief of staff Mark Meadows were informed that attendees at a Jan. 6 rally had weapons, and that Trump was frustrated that those with weapons were turned away. 

UTICA, N.Y. (WUTR/WFXV/WPNY) – The Utica Police Department is reporting that a man from Georgia was arrested in Utica for allegedly possessing an illegal firearm and resisting arrest. Around 6:15 pm on February 2nd, a joint vehicle stop was conducted by the Utica Police Departments Crime Prevention Unit and the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office on […]

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — A retired U.S. Army soldier was fined $400 and given a suspended jail sentence Thursday for attempting to carry a gun and ammunition onto a plane in Zimbabwe. Retired Sgt. Maj. Ronald Leon Johnson had been held in the renowned Chikurubi Prison for more than a week after he was arrested […]

State Police arrested a man after a traffic stop on I-84 in Sturbridge ended in the discovery of a firearm with a high capacity magazine.

MEXICO CITY (AP) — A U.S. federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Mexican government against U.S. gun manufacturers arguing their commercial practices has led to bloodshed in Mexico. Judge F. Dennis Saylor in Boston ruled Mexico’s claims did not overcome the broad protection provided to gun manufacturers by the Protection of […]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The tents proliferating on sidewalks in downtown and residential neighborhoods across Portland, Oregon, are fueling a debate that’s playing out in cities nationwide as the homelessness crisis in the U.S. explodes: Should camping be banned anywhere except in sanctioned sites? Republican-led states including Texas and Missouri have passed laws in the […]

Between setting defendants’ bond and confirming their charges, the judge joked about gun preferences and college allegiances.

Two 3-year-old boys were killed after the driver lost control of his car at high speeds and ran through a fence into a corral/stable area where the children were playing.

Michigan State Police have confirmed the person found dead in a trunk of a car in Dearborn, Michigan on Sunday is that of missing Murfreesboro, Tennessee woman, Eleni Kassa.

A man from Agawam was sentenced in Springfield federal court Friday for stealing two firearms and trading them for drugs.