Automatic Glock Handguns

[ratames]

Sorry if this is a dupe but I just saw this article on WTHR's website:

https://www.wthr.com/article/news/crime/impd-indianapolis-increase-in-glock-switches-turing-handguns-into-machine-guns/531-2b708f11-32d0-4d5c-a56f-1d9fb6f5ea28

Apparently its a growing trend both here in Indy and across the country.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Ive shot a legit G18. Talk about hard to control without LOTS of practice. My first time going hands on with it I had to keep it to 3 round bursts to keep it on the silhouette.

Im more concerned with a gang banger WITHOUT one of those giggle switches. Because if he tries opening up, after 2 rounds, he's no longer on target.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Ive shot a legit G18. Talk about hard to control without LOTS of practice. My first time going hands on with it I had to keep it to 3 round bursts to keep it on the silhouette.

Im more concerned with a gang banger WITHOUT one of those giggle switches. Because if he tries opening up, after 2 rounds, he's no longer on target.

You have to hold them sideways.

 

[russc2542]

Ive shot a legit G18. Talk about hard to control without LOTS of practice. My first time going hands on with it I had to keep it to 3 round bursts to keep it on the silhouette.

Im more concerned with a gang banger WITHOUT one of those giggle switches. Because if he tries opening up, after 2 rounds, he's no longer on target.

At the same time, that's exactly the problem... What's behind and around the target isn't high on their list of concerns and these guys aren't exactly marksman of the year at the best of times.

Part of the reason my mom's side of the family are so anti-gun is my grandma was a bystander in a drive by when she was young, luckily just hit her in the upper arm.

 

[KokomoDave]

I believe this was already discussed and BATFE is going after everyone that bought them and they will be prosecuted under federal statutes as manufacturing a machinegun. I do know there were quite a few high profile arrests in Chiraq.

 

[1nderbeard]

A stupid idea for legal and practical reasons

 

[rosejm]

BATFE is going after everyone that bought them and they will be prosecuted under federal statutes as manufacturing a machinegun.

Sure, that's what they'll tell us but the reality is different.

 

[Gabriel]

Ive shot a legit G18. Talk about hard to control without LOTS of practice. My first time going hands on with it I had to keep it to 3 round bursts to keep it on the silhouette.

I've fired one with the Glock switch and, yeah, it's a little difficult to control to say the least. I'd need a lot more practice to use it with any amount of accuracy.

It was pretty educational and explained most of our shootings from last summer.

 

[Ggreen]

These were sold on wish for years. A lot were intercepted at the port and tracked to final destination. Some where being replaced in the package with a calling card from the atf. They started flowing in towards the end of Obama and i think it got out of control. It all seemed like a sting at first but once the chicom factories had the design they flooded the social media ads with them.

 

[KokomoDave]

Still being tracked as far as I am told.

 

[IUKalash429]

To me the more likely growing trend is gun grabbers and their smooth brain flunkies in the media, all playing and repeating this topic like a broken record.

Yet another simple way to gin up fear and concern from everyone on the left, and all the simps in the middle.

 

[Gritch]

These were sold on wish for years.

Are they even safe to use? Not sure I would trust something like the from Wish.

 

[NHT3]

They are good for something in untrained hands but accuracy isn't it.

 

[CallSign Snafu]

Ive shot a legit G18. Talk about hard to control without LOTS of practice. My first time going hands on with it I had to keep it to 3 round bursts to keep it on the silhouette.

Im more concerned with a gang banger WITHOUT one of those giggle switches. Because if he tries opening up, after 2 rounds, he's no longer on target.

This was my first thought about it as well.

 

[DadSmith]

Never was a fan of 3rd burst. I think a 2rd burst would be much better for pistols.

 

[Hkindiana]

Well, maybe if more gang bangers shoot themselves, there will be less crime

 

[Tombs]

3d printing let the cat out of the bag. Repeal the NFA and be done with it.

There's NOTHING anyone can do to stop the proliferation of this. It's just the knowledge that as the slide goes forward the cross needs depressed.

Good luck erasing that knowledge.

I'd much prefer gang bangers to have automatic glocks than normal glocks. It's far more likely they'll blow their own brains out than anyone else's.

 

[BigRed]

If these are illegal, why aren't murderous thugs turning them in?

 

[ECS686]

The link was broke. But last Glock Armorer class I took in May 2019 the Glock instructor showed some pictures of what looked like official Glock marked switches for the backplate. Just so folks knew it wasn’t a registered Glock Item. BATF snatched a couple Gang Bangers with them and contacted Glock since their logo was in them which Glock never made them.

I know there were more than a few arrests when they picked up folks and discovered the switches. How many more 3 years later not sure.

That said having fired a Glock 18 and several other SMGs and MGs Full Auto and 3 round Burst etc in my Military and LE years they are a novelty at best. But someone wants to feed them more power to them.

 

[DadSmith]

Could this be another fast and furious type operation?