New York may become the first state to bar gun companies from selling pistols that can easily be converted into machine guns.
Major crackdown? I don’t know guns well but aren’t switches just an add on to allow it to automatically cycle? So it’s simply a matter of not making the switches and/or changing the pistol design to not work with switches?
The switches are being made by third parties in China and illegally imported. As for changing the design they’re still stuck making gen 3 Glocks for California (current gen is 5) due to their handgun roster. And essentially their entire line of products is the same design with slightly variations.
The auto switches are indeed extra parts that bolt on.
The problem that has cropped up recently is numerous online sites selling third party switches. Despite claims made by some of the sites selling these, this distribution is illegal, at least based on how fast similar (but even less completed) AR-15 auto links landed people in jail. The sites selling these switches seem of the highest degree of shadiness, and I doubt any above board FFL would be willing to touch them.
New York seems to be taking this as an opportunity to go after a gun manufacturer rather than cracking down on the people actually making and selling the switches. Given the tension between NY and recent SCOTUS gun rulings, this seems like just another go around as NY looks for ways to restrict firearms.
FFLs are completely removed, as the switch, being illegal, is not a “regulated item” in the same sense as a lower/legal mg and cannot be sold.
(Yes yes, if you have a class III SOT you can make one and pay the tax stamp and then it’s only transferrable to other SOTs. But if you’re an SOT you can have a Glock 18, so why would you?!)
