Four people were killed and 18 injured in a mass shooting in Birmingham Sept. 21.
Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin called on Alabama legislators to ban gun conversion devices such as Glock switches hours after a mass shooting in an entertainment area Saturday night left four people dead and at least 18 others injured.
Club patrons were waiting in line outside Hush, a hookah and cigar lounge in the Pickwick Place retail center, when gunfire killed four people and injured at least 18 others. The shooting is Birmingham’sGun conversion devices like Glock switches are about one inch long that can be made of metal or plastic and can be 3D printed. They fit onto the back of a handgun and allow the user to switch between semi-automatic gunfire to fully automatic, mirroring a machine gun.
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