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How many prosecutions for illegal machine gun possession are there?
Nothing I found on Google really says it distinctly and clearly.
This pdf from 1995 says 262,300 arrests for firearm offenses in 1993... Real up to date information.
Google's AI answer is:
- There is no single,
regularly updated number for machine gun prosecutions, as this data is
not tracked separately from other firearm charges. However,
the increasing number of recovered illegal machine gun conversion
devices (such as "Glock switches") suggests a rise in related cases. For
example, the number of these devices recovered by the ATF at crime
scenes jumped 570% from 2012-2016 to 2017-2021, increasing from 814 to
5,454.
- 2012–2016: 814 machine gun conversion devices
recoveredseized - 2017–2021: 5,454 machine gun conversion devices
recoveredseized, a 570% increase - 2019: 658 machine gun conversion devices traced
- 2023: 4,530 machine gun conversion devices
recoveredseized and traced by the ATF - While specific machine gun prosecution numbers are not available, overall federal weapons prosecutions have been rising.
- The number of federal felony convictions reached an all-time high of 9,559 in fiscal year 2022, continuing a trend of increases under the current administration.
- In 2023, the U.S. Attorney's office saw an increase in the number of felony arrests that resulted in prosecution.
Notice they don't stick to apples or oranges in that answer?
It also doesn't mention a thing about arrests or prosecutions.
But... the five years of 2017 to 2021 gives 1,090.8 MG conversion devices traced a year.
If California is 28.3% of the gun owners in the US and the percentage of seizures* is even across the nation (yeah right!) then just 308.7 of those devices are from California.
Definitely need to harass the millions of legal gun owners there for that!
Even if ALL of the 1,090.8 devices were from California it's still bullshit to punish the innocent for the activities of criminals. There's probably more than a million Glocks in private hands in California and that's only 1/10% of them. Statistical noise even at the max annual rate. Just half a percent if ALL of the 2017 to 2021 seizures were in Cali. Even less for 2023...
Divide these numbers by 13 or so for the national estimate of 13 million Glocks in the USA. 0.03% of Glocks are seized with a switch if ALL MG conversion devices seized are Glock switchs!
But Glock's design needs to change.
But I'm willing to bet there's a substantial overlap in the Venn diagram between "gang member," "felon," "frequent offender," and "possession of illegal MG conversion device."
*I say seized and not recovered because recovered implies that the devices belonged to the government, who somehow lost them and is now retrieving them from the criminals.
The Army loses an M240 and finds it later = recovered.
MC Thug is arrested with a Glock switch from Temu = seized.
I don't even think that a full-auto Glock handgun would be all that effective. Unless the shooter is trained and knows what he's doing (which most gangstas aren't) full-auto is mostly a way to turn money into noise.
ReplyDeleteThat seems to be what the gang bangers want. What videos I've seen are full auto mag dumps, and the rest of the time a "Glock switch" is just a status symbol.
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