Two North Philly men arrested with foreign shipment of gun switch devices, authorities say

Two men from North Philadelphia were arrested Tuesday with a package from China containing illegal gun switches, the devices used to convert semi-automatic firearms into fully automatic machine guns, the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General said.

Philadelphia police and Homeland Security Investigations officers stopped Michael Rodriguez and Khalil Jenkins, both 19, in their car after picking up the package on their way to a home in North Philadelphia, investigators said. Inside the package, police found 11 gun switches hidden inside toy boxes. Marijuana also was found in the car, police said.

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