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Minnesota and New Jersey sue Glock for selling handguns as easily convertible machine guns (www.jurist.org)

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Minnesota and New Jersey sued Glock, Inc. (Glock) and its parent company Glock Ges.m.b.H. in their respective states on Thursday for selling semi-automatic handguns that are easily convertible to machine guns.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

What is funny is the Glock switch takes advantage of a safety feature of a Glock to make it fire full auto.

I'm not going to go into further detail, but if you understand how they function and their safety mechanisms, it is pretty easy to see how the switch works.

Other handguns are much harder to convert to controllable full auto.

[–] clay_pidgin 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thank you very much, that answers my question. I'll look up a diagram!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Look at an animated cutaway.