MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Milwaukee police are warning the public about an alarming uptick, a device known as a switch gun that turns any handgun into a machine gun is on the rise on Milwaukee streets. These devices a
Oh great, not only are shootings happening almost every day, now criminals have a way to make guns even more dangerous!
Here’s an article from last March about it. They have a nice moving infographic of the internals if you scroll down a bit. What these do is disengage the ‘sear’, which is the part that prevents the gun from firing again until the trigger is again fully released and depressed. The basic takeaway here is that every semi-automatic is an automatic with extra stuff to stop it from being automatic. It’s like an ebike; it’s basically an electric moped with an engine cutout over a certain speed.
Here’s a more extensive article from 2019 featuring a similar device (two, actually) for an AR-15. You can see that these are fabricated from inexpensive metal stock and a metal coat hanger, respectively. Watch the demonstration video; you can watch the guy turn a semi-auto into an auto by dropping a piece into the internals.
Auto-sears exist. They are not one single part that can turn any gun full auto. They’re a part type, like a trigger, hammer, extractor, or any other gun part. These parts are not universally interchangable between guns and neither is an auto-sear.
There is no one part that can make every handgun full auto.
Edit: perhaps you didn’t read the original article. This is the statement I’m refuting.
Milwaukee police are warning the public about an alarming uptick, a device known as a switch gun that turns any handgun into a machine gun is on the rise on Milwaukee streets.
Didn’t do your research then.
https://www.thetrace.org/2022/03/auto-sear-gun-chip-glock-switch-automatic-conversion/
Here’s an article from last March about it. They have a nice moving infographic of the internals if you scroll down a bit. What these do is disengage the ‘sear’, which is the part that prevents the gun from firing again until the trigger is again fully released and depressed. The basic takeaway here is that every semi-automatic is an automatic with extra stuff to stop it from being automatic. It’s like an ebike; it’s basically an electric moped with an engine cutout over a certain speed.
https://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2019/01/04/coat-hanger-machine-gun-dias-drop-in-auto-sear/
Here’s a more extensive article from 2019 featuring a similar device (two, actually) for an AR-15. You can see that these are fabricated from inexpensive metal stock and a metal coat hanger, respectively. Watch the demonstration video; you can watch the guy turn a semi-auto into an auto by dropping a piece into the internals.
You’re arguing against a point I didn’t make.
Auto-sears exist. They are not one single part that can turn any gun full auto. They’re a part type, like a trigger, hammer, extractor, or any other gun part. These parts are not universally interchangable between guns and neither is an auto-sear.
There is no one part that can make every handgun full auto.
Edit: perhaps you didn’t read the original article. This is the statement I’m refuting.
Sure then. I mistook your point.
All good, no worries. Nothing worse than arguing past each other!