A glock switch is when you trade in your plastic fantastic for a 1911.

 

 

 

Oh my gosh.. there's two of them.

 

I wish I had a dollar for everytime some dumb ass kid asked me if we sold those at gun shows.
I always said nope I don’t sell felonies

 

As typical on gun forums, your asking a question to obtain some basic knowledge/information and getting cutesy, juvenile little ATF Memes or replies from people that don’t answer the question. In a nutshell, it is an extension on a modified Glock Slide Cover Plate which overrides the Trigger Bar, basically nullifying the operation of the Sear. Allowing Glock to fire as long as the Trigger is held down. Thus making it full auto and illegal. The ones made for Glocks only work on Glocks. @HerrZnk is correct in the ties to Airsoft guns.
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As typical on gun forums, your asking a question to obtain some basic knowledge/information and getting cutesy, juvenile little ATF Memes or replies from people that don’t answer the question. In a nutshell, it is an extension on a modified Glock Slide Cover Plate which overrides the Trigger Bar, basically nullifying the operation of the Sear. Allowing Glock to fire as long as the Trigger is held down. Thus making it full auto and illegal. The ones made for Glocks only work on Glocks. @HerrZnk is correct in the ties to Airsoft guns.
Vance Moore View attachment 305017
Whynot Gunsmith Shop
Meridian, Mississippi
Facebook: Whynot Gunsmith Shop

Instagram: vance_gunsmith

Thanks mister know it all 😆

But The question had already been answered. No need to beat a dead horse. Which as I age I guess being called Juvenile does make me feel a little younger so thanks.

 

OK, I've had it up to HERE with this forum!

@Dr. Benway keeps putting laughing emojis on my posts!

Screw all of you! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

 

OK, I've had it up to HERE with this forum!

Dr. Benway keeps putting laughing emojis on my posts!

Screw all of you! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Can’t click laugh emoji enough on this one lol

 

 

It's like the giggle switch on a woman, but on a glock, for a man.

 

A Glock switch, for most users, turns one complete miss into 10-33 misses.

 

It’s worth mentioning: someone earlier discussed not proving intent and I didn’t see a direct response. There is a thing known as constructive intent. If you have no viable means or explanation that would result in an item not being contraband you will likely be charged and constructive intent argued against you. Couple examples to explain.

You have a safe full of ar lowers configured as long guns and not a single pistol configured lower. And no proof at least one lower was first assemble as a pistol. And you have a matching group of uppers that have barrel configuration shorter than 16 inches. The argument for constructive intent will likely be made at your arraignment.

If you a box of “filters” in your safe and the adapter to make your filters into illegal hearing protection, but no viable way to use those items in an innocent manner. They’ll be using constructive intent at you arraignment as well.

Just because you don't get caught in the act may not save your bacon on this topic.

 

Great answer “criminal intent” plays a large part in this. 👍🏻👍🏻👏👏👊👊

 

There’s been some Glocks in Hinds County seized with switches in them.

J.B.

 

IIRC it is a back plate that turns most Glock models into a Glock 18 (full auto machine pistol). They are supposed to be very common and popular in the middle east. Recently, at least in the last year or so, there was a story about them being sold as an airsoft accessory for an airsoft pistols, on Amazon. Supposedly for converting airsoft Glocks, they supposedly could be used on a 17 or 19 to make them go fully automatic. I have no experience with these, nor can a vouch for the veracity of this. I have not owned a Glock in decades. Perhaps the Glock aficionados here can chime in on this issue.

 

What is a glock switch? I know what they are said to do, but what is it? Does it only work on glocks?
Thanks

It's exactly what @HerrZnk said. Was a backplate accessory that would convert it to full auto. They were indeed sold as an "airsoft" accessory and somewhere down the line people figured out it worked on the real deal. Of course, converting Glock's to full auto in of itself is not super challenging if you know how a G18 works vs a typical G17. Think of it like the whole oil filter suppressor thing. Everyone who bought one thought they were being slick about it but every one of them is on a list somewhere. That said, the problem some will encounter is say you DID buy a switch but you truly bought it FOR airsoft and don't legally own any real Glock pistols. Or you order oil filters for your vehicles as they were intended. They can't prove intent unless you make it public.

 

Lort here we go again 🤦‍♂️

 

Thanks guys.
P.S. I don't have any glocks, just wondered what they were. I see them mentioned more and more frequently.

 

Something I need. (Except I don’t have a glock).

 

Machine pistols such as the Glock 18 and Beretta 93R have very limited use. At least the 93R was only 3-round burst, so maybe your first 2 rounds would hit the target. If you have a firm grip and have time to assume a stable position. The Beretta 93R was intended for close-quarters, anti-terrorist bodyguard type situations in which the person armed with one might be working within the constraints of a vehicle under attack, not able to access a shotgun or rifle.
That being said, I did have the opportunity to play with one. They are fun but you don't want it to be your go-to firearm. Which can be said about a lot of things, including some females I once knew.

 

Klink; I see nothing, nothing. I know nothing, nothing.

 

That was Schultz 🙂

 

Makes it full auto

 

Haha as we say in German: " Punkt. Ende. "
Basically "nothing left to say."

 

Just as a side note: I heard that the "Glock Switch" was the BATFE's biggest concern now. I had just turned on the radio yesterday and I honestly don't recall if it was NPR or Supertalk MS. But it is apparently WAY UP ON THE GOVERNMENT'S RADAR so no matter your intention, I sincerely recommend that you stay away from buying one of these online. Not to mention a true "machine pistol", even if it is a Beretta 93R (3rd burst) or a legitimate Glock 18, they are NOT controllable. The 93R was intended as a bodyguard's weapon if a VIP was about to be carjacked / kidnapped as happened quite often in the 1970s-1980s in Europe. The 93R is the reason there are extended capacity magazines for the Beretta 92 series. I have fired the Beretta 93R machine pistols and they work as intended. I can imagine that they would stop the bad guy trying to break into your VIP's limousine. That is it. A very mission-specific firearm. It's not the fun recreational toy that an Uzi, MPi5, etc. can be. You would be lucky to keep 2 rds on a man-sized target at 10yds, let alone 3 or 5, but at close range pulling the trigger 2-3 times on a 93R could easily put 6-9 rounds in the bad guy. I can only imagine that a Glock with the device in question installed would be much worse without the 3-round burst limiter as featured on the Beretta 93R. There is a reason the Beretta has a 3 rd burst limiter.

 

These Glock plates are particularly popular in Syria and among the Russian gangs in northern Bavaria. The latter I heard from my good friend the Hauptkommissar. Lots of illegal Glocks pouring into Germany from eastern Europe, and a lot of them have that little accessory installed. As Waffensachverständiger for north-eastern Bavaria my friend gets to catalogue and store all of the firearms confiscated or turned in by families of deceased older firearms owners. LOTS of WW2 firearms pass through his hands.

 

I learned a bunch from this thread. I never heard of a Glock switch before. As far as the other stuff with the oil filters I guess it is a good thing I don't have any threaded barrel weapons. Unless the rifles I have with muzzle brakes are removeable. I never tried to remove them so not sure. And to clarify "air soft" is those little yellow plastic bb's?