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A Glock switch, a tiny device that can turn a handgun into a machine gun, continue to show up in Columbus. Glock switches: How use of small device that makes guns automatic exploded in Columbus ...
A switch attached to a Glock pistol. A Glock switch (sometimes called a button or a giggle switch) [1] [2] [3] is a small device that can be attached to the rear of the slide of a Glock handgun, changing the semi-automatic pistol into a selective fire machine pistol capable of fully automatic fire.
Handguns and rifles illegally modified with devices called “Glock switches” to become machine guns have proliferated, officials say. The devices are tiny, cheap and easy to install.
Use of the so-called "Glock switch" has mushroomed by 330% in Oklahoma with nine incidents recorded this year. 3D printed device to turn pistols into automatic weapons increasingly used in crimes ...
Glock isn’t the only gunmaker whose weapons can be adapted with so-called “Glock switches,” but critics say Glock’s guns are among the easiest to convert. Platkin said Glock is profiting by continuing to sell the adaptable version in U.S. markets, even as they make and sell handguns in Europe that cannot accommodate such a switch.
Gaston Glock (German: [ˈɡastɔn ˈɡlɔk]; 19 July 1929 – 27 December 2023) was an Austrian engineer and businessman.He founded the company Glock.When he entered the 1980 competition for a new Austrian service pistol, he hired two engineers who had worked on the development HK's first two polymer-frame pistols, the VP70 and P9 models.
Glock was sued earlier this year by the city of Chicago, which said its police recovered more than 1,100 Glock pistols with the modification between 2021 and 2023.