Glock recently and abruptly announced the cancelation of almost all their Gen 3 – 5 pistols along with the upcoming replacement “V” line. While there has been no official statement on the reasons why, it is widely believed to be in response to ongoing litigation from multiple states as well as California’s new law banning ‘cruciform trigger bars’ found in Glock and Glock clones that make it “easy” to convert to fully automatic.
The first thing to know about this is these so-called “Glock Switches” are themselves illegal. They are federally classified as a machine gun part within the NFA (National Firearms Act) and hence, illegal to own nationwide. A handful of cities and states have also made them illegal there to because, you know, making something doubly illegal will make criminals think twice before breaking the law!
Where did these switches come from? The design was patented by a Venezuelan man in 1998, who claims he invented it in 1987. His intent was to sell these to police and military around the world to convert their standard Glock pistols to full auto. The first reported appearance in the United States was in 2002. In 2019 thousands were recovered after being imported from China. Since 2021 they have been widely self-manufactured with common 3D printers.
Who can we credit for the rapid proliferation throughout the country? China or another foreign interest? Or maybe even from within the false flag department of our own three letter agencies working to curtail the legal firearm market. Previous ATF “advisories” on the switches are undeniably detailed enough so even a novice 3D printer could create one from the drawings.
Glock itself only made one fully automatic pistol, the Glock 18 and it was designed specifically so parts could not be used with the company’s semi-auto Glock 17, or any other Glock pistol.
But facts don’t stop the folks at Gun Control, Inc. from putting out propaganda falsely claiming Glock intentionally flooded the market with guns they knew were easily converted into illegal machine guns for over 40 years.
Not wanting to be left out of the latest gun ban craze, California enacted a “Glock Ban” law, AB 1127, calling them “machinegun-convertible pistol[s]” (MCP). While the law does not mention Glock by name, it targets the type of mechanism Glock developed, the “cruciform trigger bar”, and the easy replacement of the slide backplate that “interferes with the trigger mechanism”. The new law does not (yet) outlaw the possession of these firearms but makes it illegal to sell at retail going forward. Except for law enforcement officers, naturally.
As with any popular firearm, there are MANY Glock clone manufacturers who use the same type of mechanism and are compatible with Glock parts. None of these will be able to be sold in California either. Not that a lot of them CAN be sold in California due to the requirements of their Handgun Roster.
But now, fresh off Gun Control Inc’s victory of getting Glock out of the California market, they have started going after the clone manufacturers. As is their usual tactic of going after the largest manufacturers first hoping the small companies will fall into place themselves, they have targeted Ruger for its ONE Glock clone, the RXM, even though there isn’t a single documented case of a switch being used with an RXM.
With the new Glock V models already shipping, numerous pundits have taken them apart and evaluated the changes. Again, while not explicitly stated by Glock, the changes are clearly designed to defeat the now common “after-market accessory”.
But guess what, within a couple of days of the new V models hitting the street, images were being posted on the internet of new and improved Glock switches attached to the V slides, including videos of them successfully being fired full auto. What hasn’t been disclosed if they were able to do this with just a newly designed backplate attachment of if they had to perform other modifications or to the firearm frame or slide itself.
California’s new Glock Ban law does allow a manufacturer to resubmit a redesigned firearm for testing to be added back to the Roster, but that will be pointless for Glock. Their ONLY previous models were the discontinued Gen 3 models and the new V models are all based on the Gen 5. They also still contain the ‘evil’ cruciform trigger bar. And let’s face it, with the V’s already being converted to full auto, Glock has effectively been locked out of California, their third largest market.
And I’m pretty sure that was the intent. Gun Control, Inc. has pulled off a major coup here. Instead of focusing the enforcement, prosecution and legislative efforts around the country on those who create and use the illegal switches, they went after the LEGAL firearms and customers. With this they can take out one of the most popular line of handguns in the country.
They did this by getting all Glock pistols reclassified into the newly crafted and decided evil “machinegun-convertible pistol” category and pulled from the consumer market. While this is currently only in the People’s Republik of Kalifornistan, you can be sure every other nanny gun control state is queuing up a similar law for their next legislative session. And you can absolutely count on a federal NFA ban coming with the next Democrat controlled Congress and White House.
So, what about all those pre-existing Glocks in California? They are currently “grandfathered” in and remain legal to own. But as with all grandfathered laws, it should be considered a deferred ban. Deferred until such time the legislature decides to eliminate the “dangerous loophole” in the law and get those too-deadly-for-civilians-to-own “machinegun-convertible pistols” off the streets.
Is anyone talking about this yet? No, of course not. Gun Control, Inc. never talks about next steps in gun control. They only talk about the small, incremental “common sense gun safety measures” in tiny pieces they know they can get past the populus without much resistance. How do you think people would respond if they came out and admitted their goal was to eliminate the private ownership of all Glock pistols?
The first step is already complete, no new sales of Glock or Glock clone pistols. Then the ban will include party-to-party sales or transfers. Then no passing them down to descendants. Then an outright ban to close the “dangerous loophole” once and for all. And since all handguns are already registered in California, the mandatory government buy back will be MUCH easier to do.
Think I’m wrong? Time will tell.
Bob
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