Commentary: Law enforcement warns that illegal machine gun conversion devices are everywhere, threatening the lives of officers and civilians.
Owning new machine guns has been illegal for decades in the United States. Conversion devices, which go by many names, including “glock switches” or “auto sears,” and items sometimes known as “forced reset triggers,” can turn a legal firearm into an illegal fully automatic weapon capable of firing as many as 800 or more bullets per minute.
Yet, every law enforcement leader with whom I speak warns that machine gun conversion devices are everywhere. The numbers back that up: A recent report by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives570% between 2017 and 2021When conversion devices are attached to a pistol or a rifle, they also become difficult to control when firing, potentially resulting in more random loss of life for civilians as well.
For the ATF, addressing this issue is a priority. Together with other components of the Department of Justice, we are enforcing current laws to take illegal machine guns off the street, where they are a threat to law enforcement personnel and civilians. Recently, a federal judge temporarily enjoined a seller of machine gun conversion devices from selling products that the ATF had told the manufacturer were illegal.
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