Glock is facing persecution from numerous states. Why? Because bad guys do bad things with their guns. They put full-auto switches on them, and Glock gets targeted.
They shouldn't, though.
See, the problem here isn't that Glock hasn't done something that they shouldn't have to do in the first place, namely, redesign their guns, which are proven and popular. The problem is that criminal elements simply exploit the design.
And the big problem is that those criminal elements aren't necessarily in the United States.
Two men from North Philadelphia were arrested Tuesday with a package from China containing illegal gun switches, the devices used to convert semi-automatic firearms into fully automatic machine guns, the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General said.
Philadelphia police and Homeland Security Investigations officers stopped Michael Rodriguez and Khalil Jenkins, both 19, in their car after picking up the package on their way to a home in North Philadelphia, investigators said. Inside the package, police found 11 gun switches hidden inside toy boxes. Marijuana also was found in the car, police said.
When authorities later searched the suspects' home on North Warnock Street, they said they found marijuana that had been packaged for resale, a loaded handgun equipped with a switch and a fully automatic rifle.“These illegal devices are designed to maximize death and destruction, and have no place in civilized society,” Attorney General Dave Sunday said in a statement Thursday.
These devices are a growing problem on American streets, though, thanks to the way the media overblows everything, it's difficult to say just how big a problem this is.
But the key takeaway here isn't that these are an issue, but where these came from.
China has a history of trying to attack the United States, claiming that our respect for the right to keep and bear arms is a human rights abuse, all while they send these things into the US.
We know that China's economy isn't a free market. They have a hand in everything businesses do there, and there's zero reason to believe that this is some exception. Especially as these devices have shown up on websites like Temu in the past. This isn't something they're subtle about. They want these on American streets, all so they can create problems internally.
While anti-gunners blame Glock for not completely revamping a proven design, they ignore China's role in putting these damn things out there, and it's frustrating.
For the record, I don't think they should be illegal. I should be able to meet the threat of someone with one of these things with an equal amount of force. That means I should be able to fight back in full auto.
But I can't.
I don't want to go to prison, for one thing, and I damn sure don't want to hand money over to China that they'll then use to try and disarm us completely by exerting pressure via the media...and whoever knows where else they'll exert "pressure."
Folks, we're in a war. It's not a shooting war, at least not yet, but China is not our friend. The Chinese government wants internal dissension, and likely hopes to see us disarmed so that, should they ever try to invade the mainland US, they won't have to deal with "a rifle behind every blade of grass."
So, they likely feed the violence here, sending things to the US that they could likely stop if they wanted, all to make the violence on American streets even more terrifying.
And the absolute knobs in the anti-gun movement are following along. Whether they're intentionally complicit or just too stupid to see what's going on is a matter of debate, and it's also possible that it's both. Still, this is what's happening. This is the problem, and don't let anyone tell you the onus should be on Glock for doing nothing wrong.
