‘Machine guns in Montgomery’: DOJ says threat to law enforcement, public significant 

In the past two months, a federal grand jury has indicted 11 people on charges relating to possession of machine guns, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Alabama. Each of the alleged offenses occurred in Montgomery, and each of the machine guns in question was a semiautomatic firearm that had been converted to fully automatic through the installation of a machine gun conversion device, the office said in a news release. “Machine gun conversion devices, commonly known as ‘switches’ or ‘auto sears,’ are installed on firearms and allow the guns to function as a ful