The American Bar Association is, hypothetically, the professional organization for attorneys. While I could go for a few hundred words making jokes about lawyers, including how that should make the American Bar Association a terrorist organization, the reality is that I don’t hold any actual animosity toward lawyers. I have friends in the profession, and there are people I despise in the profession.
Kind of like any other field, really.
But because they’re made up of lawyers, you’d expect them to be, you know, familiar with the law.
Well, it seems they need to brush up on things a bit, because they’re pushing for a gun control law that’s already a law.
The American Bar Association passed a resolution Monday from the New York State Bar Association urging federal, state and local governments to ban conversion devices on firearms. Such devices make a semiautomatic weapon operate like a rapid-fire machine gun.
The delegation is led by New York State Bar Association President Taa Grays who gave a stirring speech to the ABA House of Delegates highlighting the grim toll these weapons have.
“On Sept. 1, 2025, in the Bronx, four young people targeted and fatally shot a 25-year-old man. Four other men were injured in the crossfire,” she said. “Five guns were recovered, including a .45-caliber pistol equipped with a Glock switch that made it fully automatic. This is one of the many real-life tragic examples of the need to ban conversion devices.”
The Glock switch is one of a variety of small devices that can attach to a semiautomatic pistol and allow the weapon to fire continuously with a single pull of the trigger. A forced reset trigger drives the trigger forward after each discharge. A shooter who maintains pressure on the trigger can fire successive rounds like they would with a machine gun.
Margaret Finerty, the co-chair of the NYSBA Task Force on Mass Shootings and Assault Weapons and the chair of the Policy Subcommittee of the ABA Standing Committee on Gun Violence, said it’s much too easy to convert these weapons.
“The devices are inexpensive to manufacture, easy to conceal, have increasingly been imported illegally from overseas manufacturers and can be produced using consumer-grade 3-D printers,” she said.
There’s a reason I let this block quote roll a little longer than absolutely necessary.
See, they talk a lot about so-called Glock switches and how, among others, Congress needs to ban them, but they apparently are unaware that they’re already banned.
Later, they try to equate forced reset triggers with the switches, as if the two things are functionally similar, and apparently seem to think that the settlement the federal government made on those in May of last year somehow meant there’s no federal enforcement of the ban on full-auto switches.
Again, the attorneys need to brush up on the law.
Not only are these switches illegal at the federal level, but that law is still enforced.
Gays goes on to try and argue that there’s no compelling reason for anyone to have something like this other than the military. First, no one lawfully has any such thing, so stop pretending otherwise.
Second, our rights aren’t based on whether we have a compelling reason to exercise them or not. They’re our rights, and they remain our rights even if you think otherwise.
Of course, since she seems to think the federal authorities are letting people run around with auto sears, I’m not sure I’d trust her legal opinions on how to open a can of soda.
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