California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a law banning sales of one of the most popular types of handgun in the U.S.
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Shyt like this is why california dems will continue to lose national elections
Did you read this? It seems pretty commonsense to me. It targets a very specific design -- glock-style handguns with a cruciform trigger bar that can be easily converted into a machine gun using a cheap "switch." The law doesn't ban ownership, just new dealer sales of guns that can be easily modified that way.
I think this is a good way to push manufacturers to fix the design so it can't be converted, but they probably won't because redesigning costs money, and the companies selling those conversion devices profit from keeping things as they are, and gun rights advocates oppose even the narrowest safety measures.
Glock pistols were the most common crime guns recovered in 28 of the 34 cities surveyed, twice as many as next leading manufacturer.
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Everytown’s updated “Who is Manufacturing the Guns Used in Crimes?”
report utilizes data from its coalition of
Mayors Against Illegal Guns. The data received included 178,218 crime guns recovered in 34 U.S. cities over the past five years.
- Of the over 11,000 licensed gun manufacturers in the United States, four companies accounted for over 40% of the guns recovered in crimes in 2023: Glock (18.4%), Taurus (9.3%), Smith & Wesson (9.2%), and Ruger (4.7%).
- The previous report found that these same four manufacturers produced over half of the crime guns recovered in 2021: Glock (21.1%), Smith & Wesson (13.5%), Taurus (13%), and Ruger (7%).
- Glock pistols were recovered from crime scenes twice as often as the second-leading manufacturer, Taurus.
- Glock pistols were also the most common crime gun recovered in 28 of the 34 cities in this dataset.
- Similarly, the ATF also identified Glock as the top manufacturer of crime pistols recovered and traced across the country between 2017 and 2021, representing 19.6% of all recoveries in that category.
- The number of Polymer80 ghost guns recovered by law enforcement increased nearly 1,200% over the past five years but showed signs of decline in 2023.
- The decrease in ghost guns may be attributed to litigation, the ATF’s ghost gun rule, and state laws banning ghost guns. To learn more, click here.
- Polymer80 recently shut down in the face of pressure from cities, states, and private litigants, among others. It is unclear whether the company will be reconstituted.
- Twenty cities reported recovering more than 560 machine gun conversion devices (MCDs) in 2023, at least two-thirds of which were “Glock switches” designed by third parties for Glock-style pistols.
- With a switch installed, Glocks can fire up to 1,200 rounds per minute.
- Police have said that a Glock switch was used in the recent Birmingham mass shooting.
- President Biden recently announced new measures to crack down on MCDs and 3D-printed ghost guns, among other initiatives.
. But hey let's blame voters instead of the sack of shyt stand for nothing politicans that want to cater to republicans while ignoring their own constitutes.
