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The Glock 43X. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

By NRA-ILA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Violence Policy Center (VPC) is a handgun prohibition organization. The group\u2019s website<\/a> still hosts a document declaring \u201cHandguns should be banned from future sale except for military and law-enforcement personnel.\u201d It should come as no surprise then that the group is advocating for executive action to ban some of America\u2019s most common handguns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, some criminals have illegally modified common semi-automatic Glock pistols into machineguns. Typically, this has been done using illegal parts (sometimes called Glock switches) acquired from unscrupulous overseas manufacturers or intensive personal manufacture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is not illegal to own a machinegun in the U.S. However, their transfer and possession are regulated under the National Firearms Act of 1934 (NFA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The NFA requires certain firearms and firearm accessories to be registered in the National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record. Prospective machine gun buyers must apply to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for permission to transfer the firearm and pay a $200 tax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A last-minute amendment to the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986, dubbed the Hughes Amendment for sponsor Rep. William Hughes (D-N.J.), prohibits civilians from transferring or possessing machine guns not registered by May 19, 1986. The general public may still transfer and possess machine guns registered before that date, but the available supply of these items is frozen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

18 U.S.C. \u00a7924 provides that the transfer or possession of an unregistered machinegun is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Further, the same code section makes clear that a person who uses a machinegun in a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime \u201cshall be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rather than focusing on the illegal machine gun parts or violent criminals who use them, according to VPC Government Affairs Director Kristen Rand, common semi-automatic Glock handguns should be regulated as machineguns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An October 28 Chicago Sun-Times<\/em> article reported,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rand says ATF should consider using its authority to reclassify certain types of firearms that are easily converted into fully automatic weapons. Other firearms besides Glocks also are \u201creadily convertible\u201d into machine guns by machining or adding a few parts, she says.<\/em><\/p>

\u201cATF should be looking at using their existing authority to classify some of these firearms as \u2018machine guns\u2019\u2026<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Recall that the general public may not transfer or possess machineguns not registered by May 19, 1986. Therefore, under such a proposal, semi-automatic Glock handguns owned by law-abiding gun owners would become contraband. In other words: gun confiscation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, consider VPC\u2019s reading of the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rand claimed that Glocks and other unspecified firearms should be classified as machineguns because they are purportedly \u201creadily convertible\u201d to fire automatically. Rand\u2019s use of the \u201creadily convertible\u201d language may stem from the definition of \u201cfirearm\u201d in 18 U.S.C. \u00a7 921(a)(3), which states in part,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The term \u201cfirearm\u201d means (A) any weapon (including a starter gun) which will or is designed to or may readily be converted<\/strong> to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

However, this \u201creadily convertible\u201d or \u201creadily be converted\u201d language does not appear in the federal definition of a machinegun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

26 U.S.C. \u00a7 5845 defines a machinegun as follows,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The term \u201cmachinegun\u201d means any weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored<\/strong> to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger. The term shall also include the frame or receiver of any such weapon, any part designed and intended solely and exclusively, or combination of parts designed and intended, for use in converting a weapon into a machinegun, and any combination of parts from which a machinegun can be assembled if such parts are in the possession or under the control of a person.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cmachinegun\u201d definition contemplates a weapon that can be \u201creadily restored\u201d to shoot automatically. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines \u201crestore\u201d to include, \u201cto put or bring back into existence or use\u201d and \u201cto bring back to or put back into a former or original state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a commercially available semi-automatic Glock pistol has never had the capability to fire automatically, it certainly cannot be \u201crestored\u201d to do so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note that the definition does include \u201cany part designed and intended solely and exclusively, or combination of parts designed and intended, for use in converting a weapon into a machinegun.\u201d Therefore, anyone found in possession of a Glock switch or similar device, whether or not that item is equipped to a firearm or even whether or not the item is possessed at the same time as a firearm, can be charged with illegal possession of a machinegun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: The Full Hand Single Stack Glock 43X \u2013 My Central AC of Handguns<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It is clear from a plain reading of federal law that the machinegun definition cannot be applied to commonly-owned semi-automatic pistols like the Glock. However, it is instructive to examine how extensive VPC\u2019s proposed handgun ban would be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to ATF\u2019s annual Firearm Commerce in the United States report, pistols (separate from revolvers) were the most popular type of firearm manufactured in the U.S. in 2019. ATF\u2019s 2020 Firearms Manufacturing and Export Report<\/a> noted that Glock manufactured 445,442 pistols in the U.S. that year. ATF data shows Glock\u2019s home country of Austria accounted for 1,279,123 pistols imported into the U.S. in 2020. As The American Rifleman pointed out<\/a> in early 2021, \u201cIn 2020 the Glock G19 was the top-selling semi-auto pistol sold by FFLs using the services of GunBroker.com.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Glocks are ubiquitous and used by millions of Americans for lawful purposes like self-defense and target shooting. In District of Columbia v. Heller<\/em> (2008) the U.S. Supreme Court made clear that the Second Amendment right extends to the possession and use of arms \u201cin common use at the time\u201d for lawful purposes like self-defense. Under any conceivable consideration, Glock pistols fall under this protection and the Second Amendment precludes any attempt to ban them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As noted, semi-automatic Glock pistols cannot meet the federal machinegun definition. But consider if VPC\u2019s twisted logic were combined with Supreme Court precedent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one of the most popular firearms, Glocks are certainly in common use for lawful purposes and thus protected under the Second Amendment and Heller<\/em>. If VPC got its way and the federal government attempted to reclassify Glocks as machineguns, that could result in a so-called machinegun falling under the explicit protections of the Second Amendment. Making clear that the Second Amendment applies to machineguns doesn\u2019t seem like something gun control advocates would support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the Supreme Court striking down D.C. and Chicago\u2019s handgun bans, the Right-to-Carry recognized throughout the country, and Constitutional Carry in half the states, VPC is further from its goal of banning handguns than when the group started more than three decades ago. However, with the radical nature of the Biden administration, gun owners must keep an eye on attempts to enact illegitimate executive gun controls. After all, President Biden has made clear he wants to ban 9mm handguns<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An alternative approach to this matter would be to seek 30-year prison sentences for those who use illegal machine gun parts to commit violent crime, as provided under current federal law. Given the prevailing soft-on-violent crime sentiment of many policymakers and a Department of Justice that seems more concerned with wrongthink<\/a> than criminal wrongdoing, law-abiding gun owners shouldn\u2019t expect such a sensible outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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