Middle District of Alabama Acting U.S. Attorney Kevin Davidson said Wednesday arsenal of “switches” is the largest single seizure of machine gun conversion devices recorded in the Montgomery area.

From 2012 to 2016, just 814 machine gun conversion parts were taken into custody by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. That swelled to 5,454 from 2017-2021.

This is an example of a machine gun converter courtesy of the ATF. The Bureau describes them as easily integrated with semiautomatic firearms, like a pistol, to illegally convert them to fire ...