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Yes….”some” have been. I wish legislators and reporters with balls would demand some relevant stats.

How many victims died only because the offending gun was equipped with one of these Uber-scary devices?
What percentage of these deaths and shootings were gang- or drug-related?
How many otherwise law-abiding citizens with no prior association with violent crimes procured one of these devices and then went on to use it to commit crimes other than simple possession?
How many of these devices that were used in crimes were installed on weapons that were lawfully possessed by the user?
How many of the devices that were seized by the ATF were actually obtained from individual boxes, vs. seizing a case of devices at the post office?
How many of these devices are currently in existence? What percentage of that number are being used in violent crimes?

I won’t hold my breath.

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Said it before, but I can see Glocks being deemed "Readily Convertible" and forced into a redesign.  They did it in the 80s with the open bolt semi auto MACs.

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I shot a legit Glock machine pistol at one of those machine gun rental outfits. I didn't much care for it. Horribly inaccurate for me as it pulled off center really badly. Other than being a waste of expensive bullets, I can't see the need for one on a Glock. Tommy guns and full-auto AR-15s, yeah, that I can see. (Loved shooting the Thompson. Literally shot the center out of the target like those carnival air rifle games. Guy from the place mentioned "Well, that's definitely your gun there.")

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It wouldn't work with a Flux Defense brace, either. A switch protrudes far enough from the back of a Glock that it would impact the frame of the Flux brace before fully cycling.

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I'd rather have the Beretta 93R

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I shot a legit Glock machine pistol at one of those machine gun rental outfits. I didn't much care for it. Horribly inaccurate for me as it pulled off center really badly. Other than being a waste of expensive bullets, I can't see the need for one on a Glock. Tommy guns and full-auto AR-15s, yeah, that I can see. (Loved shooting the Thompson. Literally shot the center out of the target like those carnival air rifle games. Guy from the place mentioned "Well, that's definitely your gun there.")

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What a horribly written article.

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Only in motherfucking America.

- Politicians in bed with Chinese.
- Chinese flood streets with glock switches
- Gang bangers roaming the streets causing mayhem with glock switches
- Politicians enjoy leveraging the chaos and dead bodies as ammunition for their anti-gun efforts

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Was waiting around for court one day not too long ago and a prosecutor was talking about a case and said that a full auto glock was taken off a suspect. He stated it wasn't an official one with the side switch and it didn't have the wish.com switch on the back.
That after testing it, it was full auto only and there was no way to shoot semi auto. Someone had shoved a thin piece of metal next to the trigger bar or some such to make it keep firing.
Sounded like he got confused with the coat hanger in the AR trick. But I don't know enough about glock switches or glocks for that matter to correct him.

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Wait until they find out what you can do with a leatherman tool and a coathanger...

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Not just for abortion anymore:

https://i.pinimg.com/474x/f7/0a/50/f70a50eae3a6636568ca6369aba2a098.jpg

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pro tip: they already have them.

my neigbhor down the road runs a trap house. literally someone was killed at the trap house. cops came. he was arrested with over an ounce of crack, a glock with a switch, and thousands in drug money. literally spent less than 24 hours in jail and charges were dropped against him/ cops aren't even trying to solve the murder at his house either.

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The earsplitting, heart-stopping roar of fully automatic weapons hasn’t been often heard on America’s streets since Congress largely outlawed them in 1934. But now it’s back, owing to a small device that is easily plugged into certain handguns and rifles, converting semiautomatic firearms into guns capable of firing 20 bullets in one second — with one pull of the trigger.

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“It’s incredibly scary,” said Matthew M. Graves, the District’s U.S. attorney, citing the rising number of conversion devices found in the city in recent years. There were 27 guns recovered with the devices in 2021. The number rose to 119 last year, and, as of late October, the number was more than 150, Graves said. Police often find extended magazines attached to the guns, to hold more than the standard 12 or 13 bullets contained in most magazines, and they have even seized round drum magazines, which can hold 50 or more bullets.

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The devices have many names: Switch. Giggle switch. Sear. Auto sear. Conversion device. Glock switch (some of which have Glock’s logo fraudulently printed on them). Even though they are small — switches for pistols are about the size of a playing die — and don’t themselves contain bullets, the devices are considered machine guns by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said Craig B. Kailimai, special agent in charge of ATF’s Washington field division.

“That would be illegal,” he said. “The device itself.”

The devices can be made of metal or plastic, and authorities believe some are imported from China and sold on the streets. But 3D printers also have been used to make both the square-shaped switch for pistols and an S-shaped device that slides into guns such as the AR-15 to convert them to fully automatic, Kailimai said. The printing process takes about 45 minutes.

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Under some circumstances, civilians can legally purchase automatic weapons. The conversion switches for both semiautomatic handguns and rifles also can be purchased legally under certain conditions. Both the American military and law enforcement have uses for automatic weapons, so law enforcement officials cannot approach gun manufacturers and ask them to stop making guns that can be easily converted, Kailimai said. Glock officials have said they cannot change the design of their pistol to foil the switches.

The ATF said it recovered more than 5,400 illegal switches between 2017 and 2021, a 570 percent increase from the preceding five years. In both pistols and rifles, the switch works by blocking the mechanism in the gun that requires a trigger pull before each shot. With a switch in place, one trigger pull can fire the weapon until it is out of ammunition.

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“There is absolutely no reason or no room for our suspects to be armed like this,” Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said at a news conference. He showed body-camera footage of the fatal shooting of Jeffrey. “This is a threat that is here, and it’s a threat to everybody — law enforcement and citizens in every neighborhood in our community.”

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/with-conversion-switch-devices-machine-guns-return-to-u-s-streets/ar-AA1l5j3N

Common use? Pics and video at link

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So, do I PM you for directions or is there a website?

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The DA's (especially Houston, check the demographic/makeup of Harris County DA's), give out dollar bonds, drop cases, and decline to prosecute for heinous crimes all the time.

Growing up around Houston, and living/working in the area, it's held on by a thread for a long time of not being a complete shithole. Sometimes I wonder how.

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?   Just download the stl and print it.  

Or order one from a Chinese supplier that isn’t on the ATF’s naughty list.  

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If Glock switches were legal, it might make me buy a glock.
They should be legal.

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China would never knowingly flood the market with these

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A 4K$ Tax stamp would put me out of the NFA Game for suppressors and SBRs...  I've never been in the transferable/MG game ever.

As far as a Glock Switch, I'm not really interested in those.  I guess if I could buy one legally over the counter, I might.  I think they look dumb and I don't think they would be as dependable as a OEM setup.  That and I just don't want one.

Now if I could legally have a happy switch (on the safety, selector switch, no some horrendous add on) on any of my SBRs, Scorpion Evo, Mac 10, etc...   I don't think I'd use it much per the cost of ammo, but it would be neat to have the option and be able to do mag dump now and then if I wanted too...

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China would never knowingly flood the market with these

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Wait until they find out what you can do with a leatherman tool and a coathanger...

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Where do I get one?

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“It’s incredibly scary,” said Matthew M. Graves, the District’s U.S. attorney, citing the rising number of conversion devices found in the city in recent years. There were 27 guns recovered with the devices in 2021. The number rose to 119 last year, and, as of late October, the number was more than 150, Graves said. Police often find extended magazines attached to the guns, to hold more than the standard 12 or 13 bullets contained in most magazines, and they have even seized round drum magazines, which can hold 50 or more bullets.