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With ‘conversion switch’ devices, machine guns return to U.S. streets
MSN.com ^ | December 6, 2023 | Tom Jackman

Posted on 12/06/2023 12:27:42 PM PST by Twotone

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.

In Sacramento last year, a handgun converted into a machine gun was used during a gun battle that left six dead, in what has been called Sacramento’s deadliest mass shooting. In Minneapolis, eight people were wounded in August amid a spray of 40 bullets fired in just seconds. In 2021, a Houston police officer was killed and another wounded by a suspect with a pistol equipped with the device.

And in D.C.’s NoMa neighborhood in August last year, a drug dealer who was shot at returned fire with 24 shots in one burst along North Capitol Street, authorities said. His target, a car that had been used in a drive-by shooting, sped away, while two people were wounded, according to court records.

“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.

“We have no shortage, unfortunately, of crime scenes where we have strong reason to believe...that one of these devices was used,” Graves said.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: automaticweapons; banglist; conversiondevice; fakenews; machinegun; tomjackman; tomjackwad; washingtoncompost
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1 posted on 12/06/2023 12:27:42 PM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone
Racist Darrell Brooks didn't need a "machine gun" to kill 6 people and injure over 60 more with his car at the Christmas parade massacre in Wisconsin. All he needed was the Dims' race war propaganda to motivate him enough to find any means necessary to do what he wanted to do.

Ban assault Democrats now!

2 posted on 12/06/2023 12:33:46 PM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Twotone

Well Duh, make them illegal and they will all go away!


3 posted on 12/06/2023 12:34:39 PM PST by When do we get liberated? (A socialist is a communist who realizes he must suckle the breast of Capitalism.)
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To: Twotone

Devices? It’s a simple switch of the sear, a literal drop in. I saw an Ingram Mac 10 go full auto at a arsonal sponsored demo once, the “device” was a piece of bent coat hanger.


4 posted on 12/06/2023 12:36:03 PM PST by Clutch Martin ("The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right." )
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To: Twotone
The earsplitting, heart-stopping roar of fully automatic weapons

The author writes like an underweight, skinny-jeans wearing, limpwristed faggot. I bet he has never heard automatic weapons fire.

5 posted on 12/06/2023 12:39:15 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Twotone

My local gun range has an automatic weapon for rent. It sort of looks like a machine gun but I’m not sure what model it is. Mostly tourists rent it. I was in there one day when a family from Md was enjoying some range time with it. Zip..zip 50 rounds down range in a few seconds. They were giggling. All I could think of is much money they were spraying around.


6 posted on 12/06/2023 12:39:17 PM PST by DeplorablePaul
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To: Twotone

A lot came from China.
Buddy manages a gun store, and had multiple people try to sell glocks with them on.


7 posted on 12/06/2023 12:42:46 PM PST by redgolum (We are not going to make it, are we. )
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To: DeplorablePaul

Yep, full-auto instead of burst control is a quick way to run out of ammo and still have bad guys targeting you.


8 posted on 12/06/2023 12:44:37 PM PST by curious7
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To: Twotone

Modern organized crime and illicit drugs....as it was in the ‘30s, with bootleg liquor and the Mob.


9 posted on 12/06/2023 12:47:46 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: Twotone

All you have to do is ████ ████ the ████ ███.


10 posted on 12/06/2023 12:50:21 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: NorthMountain
underweight, skinny-jeans wearing, limpwristed faggot

You left out "man bun" and "fanny pack".

11 posted on 12/06/2023 12:51:34 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Clutch Martin

You don’t even have to swap out anything. Read post #10 between the lines.


12 posted on 12/06/2023 12:53:08 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Twotone

So, can I buy a full auto switch at Home Depot, Lowes, ACE hdw, harbor freight?


13 posted on 12/06/2023 12:54:46 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: rktman

Oh yeah. Don’t concern yourself with the 100,000+/- ODs per year.


14 posted on 12/06/2023 12:55:59 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Twotone

Glock Switch

15 posted on 12/06/2023 1:01:16 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: curious7

most of them will probably run


16 posted on 12/06/2023 1:01:55 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: Twotone
There have always been work-arounds to make illegal machine guns. The ATF once designated a shoe string a machine gun.

But machine guns are still illegal without the proper paperwork: ten years in prison and $250,000 fine.

Think about that.

17 posted on 12/06/2023 1:11:04 PM PST by jeffersondem
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To: curious7

>>a quick way to run out of ammo

So basically a conversion to single-shot?

Aim for the bad guy’s right foot?


18 posted on 12/06/2023 1:11:22 PM PST by FarCenter
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To: Twotone
"He said prosecutors who have reduced prosecutions for gun possession in urban areas should make exceptions for guns with switches attached."

So, they admit that they are not prosecuting criminals for crimes committed with a gun, then, they're surprised that those same criminals commit more crimes with guns.🤔

A few months ago, police in Chicago picked up 5 "teens",15-16 years old, all carrying Glocks with switches.

None were prosecuted, but turned over to their parent(s) or guardians.

Much safer for the feds to go after a law abiding gun owner that legally purchased a solvent trap, 80% reveiver or a brace.

19 posted on 12/06/2023 1:13:15 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: FarCenter

it is not even fully automatic. It is more like slam fire. Once you pull the trigger, it will slam fire into the magazine is empty. Easing the trigger will not stop the slide.


20 posted on 12/06/2023 1:16:35 PM PST by DCBryan1 (Inter arma enim silent leges! - Cicero )
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