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ATF Not Amused by the Number of ‘Giggle Switches’ Turning Up on District of Columbia Streets

March 6, 2025September 5, 2021 by Dan Zimmerman

“It used to be we’d have an incident where a round or two was fired, and that’s bad enough,” [ATF D.C. field office special agent in charge Charlie J.] Patterson said. “Now you’re having crime scenes where there are 15 or more rounds fired. . . . That’s doubling or tripling the potential for death.” Patterson also … Read more

ATF Agents Hunting Down Chinese Full-Auto GLOCK Conversion Kits

May 28, 2019 by Dan Zimmerman

Did you read our post a few weeks ago about cheap Chinese knock-off gear being sold through a site called wish.com? The post centered on an arrest that was made in upstate New York after a man bought a kit to convert GLOCK pistols to run in full auto. He’d also bought silencer components from … Read more

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