LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — The Louisville Metro Police Department said it’s seeing an alarming increase in Glock switches, or machine-gun conversion devices, in Jefferson County.
These tiny devices turn any handgun into an automatic weapon in seconds. However, without a state law, there’s not much the department can do about it.
“When you’ve pulled the trigger, it doesn’t stop firing rounds,” Deputy Chief Emily McKinley said Wednesday. “They have a fully automatic firearm that can fire 15 bullets in less than a second. It’s easy to have a reckless spray of gunfire when you have a Glock switch.”…