In Mississippi last year, lawmakers adopted state penalties against people possessing Glock switches. Alabama lawmakers took up the issue but did not pass anything before their spring session ended.
George County Deputy Jeremy Malone was shot and killed in the line of duty. His death served as an inspiration for Mississippi lawmakers to pursue stricter laws against people found in possession of a Glock switch.-- after he was shot and killed by a man carrying a handgun converted into an automatic weapon -- lawmakers went into action.
“It’s certainly a public safety issue,” Treadaway said. “It puts a lot of law enforcement lives and the lives of citizens in danger when you have Glock switches making these fully automatic machine guns. You can’t control them. Bullets spraying everywhere. They need to be taken off the streets.”A convention attendee looks at NRA branded shirts for sale at the NRA Store at the NRA Annual Meeting held at the George R. Brown Convention Center Thursday, May 26, 2022, in Houston.
Randy Kozuch, executive director of the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action, in a statement, said the possession of gun conversion devices is already a felony under federal law, and that their use in violent crime carries a 30-year mandatory minimum sentence. Said Ensler, “It’s important we have a federal statue, but also a state one so have those tools in the toolbox and instead of referring everything to the , they can refer those cases to the DAs. It expands the scope to deter people and hold them accountable.”
Ensler said that bump stocks are devices attached to rifles, while HB26 deals only with modifications to pistols. The two devices are not the same, he said.
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