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What is a glock switch?

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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.
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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.
 
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.