Local and federal officials say the new law will will help make Birmingham safer, but advocates say it will take more than a ...

Around 4:45, officers were investigating a suspicious vehicle on 9th Terrace North when they took the boy into custody.

The Birmingham Police Department says Special Enforcement Team (SET) officers arrested a 15-year-old boy who was in ...

Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed a bill making the possession of a “Glock switch” illegal in the state of Alabama.

Among a spate of foreign students detained recently by immigration officials is a University of Alabama doctoral student from ...

Alabama lawmakers approved a ban on Glock switches and other conversion devices that convert semi-automatic weapons into ...

The Alabama Senate passed Senate Bill 116, making the possession of Glock switches—a device that converts handguns into fully ...

A 15-year-old male was arrested by the Birmingham Police Department's Special Enforcement Team (SET) officers for illegal ...

“While there is a federal ban on these gun conversion devices, we needed a way to empower our own law enforcement here in Alabama to get these illegal and extremely dangerous Glock switches off ...

The law, which goes into effect immediately, targets devices that turn semiautomatic handguns into makeshift machine guns.

A teenage boy is the first person in Birmingham to be arrested under Alabama’s new state ban on Glock switches. The Birmingham Police Department’s Special Enforcement Team arrested a 15-year-old ...