> You are converting a weapon to make it do something that it was not intended to do...<p>Yes, they are actually. These are glock full auto switches, which if you've ever seen a glock and you know how it works, you know how easy it is. Glock designed the handgun specifically to allow this, and they even manufacture switches themselves.<p>I don't know why they're going out of their way to not inform people of what exactly is happening. People are buying or building a very easy to make gun, buying or building a very easy to make part and adding it to the gun. It's not something anyone can easily stop anywhere, but the last paragraph really gives you a clue. Canadian law enforcement understands that the phenomenon of growing violence in street crime is a cultural problem and pretty new in Canada at least in it's current form and in recent decades.
Obviously not supporting having these switches, but wondering if it makes shooting more dangerous or less.<p>My non expert guess is the people using these 'pray and spray' in something I suspect is very hard to control. This would serve to make a heap of wild shots plus make them run out of bullets very quickly for any kind of follow up or ongoing fight. But at the same time send a heap of bullets fast.<p>I wonder if it becomes one of those events that on the surface looks far worse but statistically is not. Or more unintended bystander deaths?<p>To be clear. I don't know the answer or are promoting one, but it has the feeling of something that might have a counter initiative answer.
> The person firing this weapon has no control, nor do they understand that one to two seconds with their finger on that trigger can release between 30 and 60 rounds potentially.<p>Are there Glock magazines that hold 60 rounds? The highest capacity I see in a very quick online search is around 30. Standard capacity is 10-17 rounds. Can the barrel and the mechanism withstand the heat of 60 rounds fired that fast? Glocks are already at least anecdotally prone to jamming.<p>And, I'd guess that a person making such a modification understands exactly what it will enable.
For anyone curious like I was, here's how they work: <a href="https://youtu.be/J_-QBT9Tul4?t=72" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/J_-QBT9Tul4?t=72</a><p>(pardon the AI voiceover but it's good enough)
And there will continue to be handguns and auto sears coming across the USA-Canada border until there exists the political will to crack down on smuggling via the cross-border native reserves.