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UPDATED 2:22 PM PDT April 14, 2020 PUBLISHED April 14, 2020 1:32 PM PT April 14, 2020 PUBLISHED April 14, 2020 at 1:32 PM PDT
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LOS ANGELES - The coronavirus pandemic hasn't stopped federal authorities in Los Angeles from actively working to track down thousands of illegal machine gun conversion kits imported into the United States from other countries.
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Converters, often called "Glock converter switches," are smaller than the size of a dime, but can turn a Glock pistol into a fully automatic weapon.
ATF agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and Explosives are concerned that these devices could end up in the hands of criminals, especially at a time when gun sales are on the rise.
"It's a piece of metal, actually three pieces. They go behind the slide and convert this firearm into a fully automatic firearm," said Stephen Galloway, special agent in charge of the ATF in Los Angeles.
Galloway says the ATF has tracked shipments of these devices from overseas, but some are even manufactured right here in Southern California.
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"We've seen cases here in L. A. where they are manufactured at home or in a machine shop,” Galloway said.
Jack Brandhorst, owner of Red Rifle Gun Shop, has never handled a switch, but he can take a gun apart in seconds and showed us exactly how one installs it.
"I can't talk about what people think." We have a lot of customers here who want things that people don't have — they see it in the movies. They want to be the bad mom on the block, but it's serious and it's also very dangerous," Brandhorst said.
Brandhorst said he never had customers for the converters, which only work on Glock-brand pistols, but some were curious about fully automatic weapons.
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"Idiots have been asking me how to make a fully automatic rifle, which I'm sending them on their merry way," Brandhorst said.
"It's pretty scary to talk about it from a former street officer's point of view knowing that somebody might have a machine gun and I don't have enough firepower to compete with that," Galloway said.
Galloway added that in one case, the ATF identified 4,000 converter switches smuggled into the United States and was able to recover more than 3,000 of them. But hundreds of those shipments are still out there, being made by other manufacturers.
"They're dangerous and we're doing everything we can to get them off the streets," Galloway said.
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