Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law a bill banning Glock switches and other conversion devices that convert semi-automatic weapons into machine guns.
The legislation makes it a state crime to possess the devices, which turn semi-automatic firearms into automatic ones.
Those devices, some called "Glock switches," can be installed on handguns to automatically fire more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single pull of the trigger.
(WIAT) — On Wednesday, Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed into law a bill banning ... “While there is a federal ban on these gun conversion devices, we needed a way to empower our own law ...
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