For those who fancy a Glock 19-pattern pistol due to its versatility of customization, there’s a major hangup; since the frame is serialized, swapping it—for want of change in size, ...

MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) - This week, the Alabama House approved a bill that would ban Glock switches. A Glock switch is a tiny modification that converts handguns into fully-automatic weapons.

The agency said it stopped 155 shipments containing 354 Glock switches — which modify semiautomatic weapons to make them fully automatic — between January and June. In July, August and ...