Glock switches the latest battlefront in war over firearms

On Wednesday, as the U.S. Supreme Court pondered whether to uphold a ban on “bump stock” devices, which can speed up the firing of semi-automatic firearms to near machine-gun rate, lawmakers in Annapolis were presented with concerns about the rising use of “Glock switches” which can likewise convert Glock semi-automatic handguns into fully automatic ones. In other words, in the war to keep the most destructive firearms out of the hands of evil-doers, yet another battlefront has opened up.