Mobile County’s incoming DA says he is pushing for legislation to criminalize ‘Glock switches’ in the state
“We are seeing more and more cases involving what have come to be known as Glock switches,” incoming Mobile County District Attorney Keith Blackwood said Thursday. “These are devices that are mass produced, mostly overseas. They can even be 3D-printed, which is very concerning.”with murder on Thursday, said the gun he is accused of firing had one of these devices that converted his weapon into a fully automatic machine gun.
Current Alabama law makes it a crime to alter a weapon. But Blackwood said that applies to things like rubbing off the serial number or other actions affecting the identification of a gun, not how it functions. He said the Glock switches are so new that state law hasn’t had time to catch up. “Up until now, federal regulation over fully automatic machine guns has been enough, in our mind,” he told FOX10 News. “But with the prevalence of these Glock switches, how we’re seeing them flood the market, we just feel like there needs to be a state-law solution at this point.”
Blackwood says he has drafted sample legislation modeled after federal law and a statute in Virginia that specifically targets Glock switches. He said the Alabama District Attorneys Association also is working on a proposal as part of a larger criminal justice package.“With this particular piece of material that changes it from semi-automatic to automatic, that is extremely dangerous,” he said.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Mobile has brought charges in a number of cases involving Glock chips. They include:
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