BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ( WIAT ) – A bipartisan bill has been pre-filed in Alabama that will make devices that can turn a handgun into a machine-gun-style weapon illegal.
These devices, commonly referred to as ‘Glock switches’, are already illegal on a national level but making it a felony in Alabama would allow for these cases to be prosecuted by state district attorneys.
This will be the third year a bill has come before state lawmakers aiming to crack down on trigger activators that can take a handgun from firing one round per trigger pull to multiple rounds. Each year, the legislation has seen support from both sides of the aisle.
“We’ve made more progress each year,” State Representative Phillip Ensler from Montgomery County said.
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Ensler pre-filed his third pistol conversion ban bill on Aug. 19. He says in this last session, his bill passed the house and was supposed to be voted on by the senate on the last day of session but a filibuster kept it from being read.