State legislatures in California, Maryland, Connecticut, and New York have spent the past two years passing laws that ban Glock-pattern pistols altogether on the theory that the platform is uniquely dangerous because illegal “Glock switches” can convert them to fully automatic fire. New empirical research suggests that justification doesn’t hold up against the actual numbers.
A recent report from the Crime Prevention Research Center documents just 43 murders nationwide from 20 attacks involving Glock switches over the 2021-2026 period — meaning fatal lightning strikes killed nearly twice as many Americans during the same window.
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State legislatures in California, Maryland, Connecticut, and New York have spent the past two years passing laws that ban Glock-pattern pistols altogether on the theory that the platform is uniquely dangerous because illegal “Glock switches” can convert them to fully automatic fire. New empirical research suggests that justification doesn’t hold up against the actual numbers.
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A recent report from the Crime Prevention Research Center documents just 43 murders nationwide from 20 attacks involving Glock switches over the 2021-2026 period — meaning fatal lightning strikes killed nearly twice as many Americans during the same window.
