ROCKFORD ? A federal grand jury returned indictments in?separate cases?charging two men with illegally possessing machine guns.? The?defendants are charged with possessing devices that were used to convert a conventional semi-automatic pistol into a fully automatic firearm.

CHICAGO ? A man who trafficked firearms and re-sold them to Chicago gang members has been sentenced to 12 years in federal prison. DAVID SANTIAGO, 39, sold firearms and narcotics out of his residence in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood on Chicago?s Southwest Side.? Many of the guns were sold...