Reply #46: That old "easy full-auto conversion" saw again

[slackmaster]

"One of the Glock’s most frightening attributes is its ability to easily be converted into a full automatic weapon..."

Notice how people who make that kind of claim never provide enough detail to verify it, nor is there ever any mention of a Glock that has been illegally converted actually used in a crime.

I've fired a G18 and examined it closely. There is no way to put G18 fire control parts into a G17 without doing some machine work. The G17's frame has no provision for the selector switch.

But people who WANT to remain ignorant and afraid won't bother to check out the veracity of these claims. They are content to repeat the second- or third-hand information as fact.

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By the way, wasn't it not long ago the RKBA crowd was on here assuring us it was next to impossible to convert guns to full auto? Sure it was.

No, that is a Straw Man. Nobody here has ever used those or similar words to describe the difficulty of converting a modern semiautomatic fire to full auto. Those of us who have some technical knowledge have described it as "non-trivial" and noted that in ALL cases some precision machine work is required. That is certainly true for a Glock conversion.