One of the latest innovative strategies from the extremists at Gun Control, Inc. is the Glock Ban. These new state laws being tested around the country target the ubiquitous Glock and Glock-style handguns because they are convertible to fully automatic by use of a “switch”. Never mind that a “switch” is highly illegal at both the state and federal level, the ban is because someone might take an illegal part and illegally put it into a legal firearm.
Of course, this is on top of numerous states suing Glock for producing firearms that can be illegally converted in the first place for marketing their capabilities to law-abiding civilians for self-defensive purposes which apparently also appeal to criminals. That supposedly makes them liable for unlawful use by criminals.
At issue is a small, add-on device invented by a Venezuelan man in 1986 and issued a U.S. patent in 1998. With it, a standard semi-automatic Glock handgun functions as a fully automatic Glock. As you might expect, a so-called “Glock Switch” is considered a fully automatic firearm part and, like an auto seer for any other firearm, highly regulated and illegal to make, possess or use.
Of course, with the U.S. Patent being filed, the genie was out of the bottle. The patent, intended to control the product and prevent others from making, selling, distributing or using it without your permission and/licensing, in effect gave it to the illegal world. Criminals, which includes other countries, care as much about patents as they do about the legal system. As such, Glock Switches began showing up in the U.S. within a few years. Many came in from China and now with the widespread adoption of 3D printing at the consumer level, they can be printed at home.
So, what of Glock? Is this their fault for designing a firearm that can be converted to fully automatic? Of course not. Only one Glock model, the Glock 18, is fully automatic. It is only sold to the military and law enforcement and the critical parts to make it fully automatic are not compatible with any other Glock firearms by design.
Keep in mind Glock’s striker fired design has also been replicated by many other firearm manufacturers. Note also that many semi-automatic firearms can be converted into fully automatic use by someone who knows how. The fact that these “switches” are currently only available for Glocks is no different than computer viruses targeting the most widely used software and operating systems first. You go after the biggest target first, then go after the rest later. This approach holds true for “switches” and for gun control as well.
Now enter the extremists from Gun Control, Inc. Having been unsuccessful at banning handguns after the United States Supreme Court ruled that unconstitutional, they attempted to slip the “semi-automatic mechanism” into their ever-evolving definition of so-called “assault weapons”, thus far with only limited success. Glock Bans allows them to go after one of the most common and widely owned semi-automatic handguns in the country/world because it can be illegally converted to fully automatic.
I’d like to think our own ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) has only been interested in removing these illegal devices from our streets and going after those who make and distribute them, but after seeing some of the ATF bulletins, with scale three dimensional drawings from multiple angles, I’m not sure. Given their association with Gun Control, Inc. who have time and again shown their willingness to sacrifice lives in order to further their anti-gun agenda, I haven’t been able to decide if they were trying to prevent or propagate the use of these “switches”.
One thing is for certain though. While Glock handguns are the current focus of so-called “easily convertible” firearms to be banned, once they gain traction here, they will quickly add more handguns, then rifles, then shotguns to their ever-evolving definition of banned firearms. Just like the never-ending definition of so-called “assault weapons”, this category of too-deadly-for-civilians-to-own firearms will continue to expand and encompass more and more currently legal firearms.
As I’ve mentioned before, all of this is being sponsored, written and supported by the extremist folks at Gun Control, Inc., funded by billionaire money and your very own tax dollars. State, county and municipal politicians don’t even have to understand what they are signing onto, only that it will all be taken care of for them and they will be considered a hero of the fanatical gun control community when the laws get enacted.
If you’re think this will somehow make our streets safer, it won’t. Criminals, terrorists and thugs know the law and break it anyway. It’s what they do. Adding more laws for them to ignore isn’t going to stop them of doing something they think will give them an advantage over a disarmed and vulnerable victim population.
Glock bans should be recognized for exactly what they are, another unconstitutional gun grab. None of these new laws target those who are creating and distributing the parts or the ones who use them, only the retailers who legally sell firearms and the law-abiding citizen who want to purchase, carry and use firearms for their own protection and the protection of their families.
Remember, gun control does absolutely nothing to increase public safety and the answer to fix that shortcoming is always to implement more gun control.
Bob
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