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States Take a Different Approach to Getting ‘Switches’ Off the Streets
States like Connecticut are enacting laws to ban the sale of pistols that can be easily converted into machine guns, addressing the rise in violent crimes involving such weapons. The new laws aim to pressure manufacturers to redesign firearms to prevent modifications, following a surge in recovered machine gun conversion devices like Glock switches.
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