Many of the most popular handguns in the country could soon be illegal to sell in New York, after state Sen. Sen. Zellnor Myrie introduced a bill banning the manufacture and sale of “convertible pistols.”
The bill was drafted with the help of Everytown, according to the Wall St. Journal, and it’s highly unlikely that New York will be the only state where the gun control lobby starts pushing for a semi-auto ban.
Myrie said the legislation doesn’t name Glock, but he wrote the bill to address Glock pistols because they are easily convertible for machine gun-like fire. The converted guns increasingly have been used in crimes, he said.
It’s already illegal under federal law to possess an auto-sear or machine gun conversion device, but with law enforcement around the country reporting a growing number of firearm recoveries where an auto-sear was attached, gun control groups like Everytown see this as an opportunity to go after the firearms and not just the illegal aftermarket accessory.
Despite Myrie’s contention that other semi-automatic firearms not produced by Glock can’t be illegally converted to full-auto, the truth is the the vast majority of semi-automatic firearms can be converted into machine guns, so long as someone’s willing to put in the time and effort... as well as violate the law. It’s probably more fair to describe Myrie’s bill as a ban on most semi-automatic pistols. It’s also a little surprising that he didn’t choose to target all semi-automatic firearms, given that the gun control lobby has quietly been arguing for several years that most semi-automatics should be treated like they’re machine guns because of their convertability.
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