A machinegun conversion device, or fully-automatic conversion device, sometimes referred to as a “Glock giggle switch,”
As I heard the story, some factory in China churned out several containers full of these switches that were made for airsoft guns. Someone figured out that they could be dropped into a Glock 17 and, presto chango, you've got a Glock 18. BATFE was quietly running around to retailers scooping them up and grabbing sales receipts.
And the moral of the story is, if you ever get a letter from BATFE asking you to turn in something you bought, you should hand it over because they will come looking for it.
Was thus the “first shot over the bow” toward the gun community?
I guess they should pay attention.
And this statement right here is EXACTLY how we've lost so much of our Rights to date...
It doesn't matter that the law itself violates the Constitution.
It doesn't matter that any "authorities" enforcing this illegal law are also violating OTHER laws, most of which are FELONIES.
Nope. Capitulate because the men with government guns will kill you if you don't turn your belly to the sky and beg for mercy.