In 2025, AL.com’s “Beyond the Violence” project, in partnership with The Birmingham Times, examines how Birmingham can become safer, healthier and happier. Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin today ...

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 ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WSFA) - There has been lots of conversation throughout Alabama about machine gun conversion devices dubbed Glock switches. Several bills addressing them passed Wednesday through the ...

MONTGOMERY (AP) — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed legislation Wednesday outlawing Glock switches and other gun conversion devices, an approval that comes after a deadly year in which the devices were ...