INDIANAPOLIS -- Breaking the cycle of violence by targeting illegally possessed guns, drugs and repeat violent offenders is the goal of the Indiana Crime Guns Task Force.

This week, the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department highlighted how that task force has seen a dramatic increase in machine gun conversion devices being seized this year.

Just nine months into the year, the task force has seized more than nine times as many machine gun conversion devices when compared to all of last year.

The danger of those devices was illustrated by a shooting captured on video last month after a barrage of gunfire was unleashed into a crowd using two handguns equipped with machine gun conversion devices. The shooting near 56th Street and Georgetown Road left three people wounded and endangere

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