Proliferation of switch handguns and hip-hop influence

[ISO]

That fat sloppy journalist covering the YSL case wrote an article on switches I feel is thread worthy.

These guns pretty much have no effectiveness and led to a mass shooting (gang related) in a Sacramento club this year where innocents were killed.

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shyt is spreading coast to coast due to rap lyrics and videos. Now the thing for street nikkas is to have switches which is almost purely aesthetic.

I sent a note to Atlanta’s ATF bureau a couple of weeks ago when a video of some kids with all the guns in their coats at a Salvation Army gym in Chicago started to make the rounds on the Internet. I wanted to know if federal agencies had started to see switches on the street in Atlanta. In the video, one of these kids opened up his jacket to reveal a “switch” — a Glock handgun that had a converter in the sear allowing it to fire as an automatic weapon.

“Are you out of your mind!” I literally shouted at my computer. “Why would you put that on a video with your face visible?!”

Fast forward to today. Jeffery “Young Thug” Williams, Martinez “Lil Duke” Arnold and Deamonte “Yak Gotti” Kendrick are all being charged with possession of a machine gun because a Glock 45 9mm handgun with an extended magazine and a converter switch was allegedly found at Williams’ house when they were arrested Monday evening.

The Fulton County District Attorney’s office also said police found other guns, 1.3 kilograms of weed, 31 bottles of promethazine codeine syrup and 20 bottles of YSL Slime Drink containing THC.

(An aside about YSL Slime Drank: the stuff appears to be a marketing effort based out of North Carolina, sold by SL Marketing Inc. in Wilmington through the now-defunct website SlimeDrank.com.)

But the gun charge is the wake-up call. As soon as I saw that, I started shouting again at my computer.

“You knew they were coming for you soon. You had to know. Your dad told my buddy you knew. I fukking knew and have been predicting it for months. The Eppinger arrest gave you a short time window to act. Your lawyer had to be screaming at you to get rid of illegal stuff before you were arrested. And you still had the one thing that guaranteed the FBI would sit up and take notice in your house!?"

Switches are great if you plan to kill bystanders while missing your intended target. Such was the case with the Sacramento massacre that left six people dead and a dozen more injured last month. At least one of the weapons used in the shootout was a Glock with an autosear conversion.

They’re more or less useless for anything else.

“They offer zero benefit,” said Luke Crawford, a firearms retailer and 2nd Amendment political advocate. Crawford has the big ATF licenses that allow him to make and sell silencers, and has fired a Glock switch before.

Even a 10-lb rifle will tend to rise and drift using automatic fire unless mounted. The first round will be on target. Successive rounds will spread feet and yards apart. Military rifles have long replaced automatic fire with three round burst settings, except for heavy weapons designed to suppress enemy return fire. Those weapons have belt-fed ammunition. A handgun modified for automatic fire is all but impossible to control.

“When I would see that somebody would buy one of those, it would be more for, I guess, the cool factor,” Crawford said, “or if they're, you know, trying to make other gangs more afraid of their gang or something like that.”

The Los Angeles Times noted that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives seized about 1,500 weapons modified with switches in 2021, five times as many as 2020.

“The Glock switch problem is not just a Glock switch problem there,” said Harry Foster, Assistant U.S. Attorney at Atlanta’s ATF field office. “It's a common one. You know, we see conversion devices like this for all kinds of different firearms. It's very prevalent.” He noted that switches have showed up in at least one case in Georgia so far, in Savannah.

The federal penalty for possession of a machine gun is up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The severity of a sentence will depend on federal sentencing guidelines, like whether it was being used to shoot someone or is simply a matter of possession, he said.

Its presence almost certainly complicates the case for Young Thug, Yak Gotti and Lil Duke. Each will be looking to lay possession off on one of the other two people charged. The threat of federal prosecution is likely an incentive to turn state’s evidence.

For anyone that doubts the influence of hip-hop these guns have made their way even into NYC.



The thing to look at is that this one has a sticker from the underwear company Ethika (a company that has been popularized through rapper endorsement deals and rapper product placement, brand was started by skateboarders).

Now where would a 15 year old kid from the Bronx get an idea to put a sticker on the clip of his gun?


“We puttin stickers on our drums that’s a city thing”

-Lil Durk

 

[OfTheCross]

 

[Swirv]

Children are notorious for making poor decisions, who are the adults giving these kids the guns?

 

[saturn7]

"....but but but but ASSAULT RIFLES"

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

The streets influence rap more than rap influences the streets.

 

[killacal]

The streets influence rap more than rap influences the streets.

Naw

 

[Double Burger With Cheese]

Naw

Who you think the first nikka with a switch was? A street nikka or a rapper?

 

[killacal]

Who you think the first nikka with a switch was? A street nikka or a rapper?

Being first doesn't mean you have more influence tho

If a street nikka from Chicago had a switch, no one outside his block would know, when these rappers rap about a switch every impressionable retarded mind hears it and is influenced by it across the country, it's amplified

 

[BmoreGorilla]

The streets influence rap more than rap influences the streets.

Yup and that’s the way it’s always been. Hip hop has always been a big ass mirror being held up to the streets

 

[Brolic]

It’s only entertainment.

 

[Money Be Green]

shyt hard

 

[BmoreGorilla]

Being first doesn't mean you have more influence tho

If a street nikka from Chicago had a switch, no one outside his block would know, when these rappers rap about a switch every impressionable retarded mind hears it and is influenced by it across the country, it's amplified

Yea but the point is the trend still started on the streets

 

[killacal]

Yea but the point is the trend still started on the streets

But we're seeing kids who aren't street turn street because of rappers

They got drill music and murder popping from safe ass Toronto to God damn Italy

 

[$cam-U-Well_Jack$on]

Y'all said that it's only entertainment and has no influence on da people theaux.

 

[Matt504]

"It's just entertainment"