The way anti-gunners and the media–but I repeat myself–play with words is interesting, if a bit infuriating. They call it “safe storage” instead of “mandatory storage” because who can oppose doing something safe? It’s “gun violence” instead of just violence because they want people to focus on the gun, not the violence. They’re “assault weapons” because that sounds scarier.
Over and over again, they use language in ways to paint a picture for the public, and since most people don’t know that much about firearms, it has a tendency to work.
Look at “ghost guns” for another example.
But a recent news story about New York taking aim at Glock had an interesting phrase in the headline.
.”New York lawmakers push for stricter gun laws targeting Glock’s convertible pistols.”
I’m sure they’d defend this, saying that the full-auto switches covert Glocks to machine pistols, thus making them convertable, but there’s also an implication here that can’t be ignored.
The implication is that this is by design.
Even if the body of the piece does note that Glock didn’t make them, doesn’t sell them, and has no role in them, even calling the ability to add a switch to it a “design flaw,” the seed has already been planted by viewers and readers.
But this isn’t a design flaw. Everything about the design works exactly as intended.
The switches take advantage of that design, rather than exploiting something that doesn’t quite work as it’s supposed to.
Drop-in, full-auto sears exist for multiple firearms, and they’ve never been legal in any way. These devices are prohibited from the jump, and yet here we stand, having the conversation we’re having because someone decided to build one to go on a Glock pistol.
“Yeah, I get that, Tom, but why are you worked up over the term? You just said yourself that there’s an argument to be made for using it,” someone might ask.
The reason is that when you talk about cars and mention a convertible, everyone knows you’re talking about a car whose top is meant to go down. With convertable furniture, it’s a piece of furniture like a table or something else that can be modified by design into being something else.
The term suggests intention, for which literally no one can show any evidence that Glock intends for its firearms to be turned into machine pistols.
And yes, I think it’s intentional. I think this is the goal. By making it look like Glock meant for this to happen, they’re trying to justify the fact that they’re targeting the most popular handgun manufacturer in the country. Glocks make up the majority of pistols in the hands of police and civilians alike, so if they can ban them, restrict them in some way, then people will have a slightly harder time getting a handgun.
That’s the goal, and it starts with misrepresenting what Glocks are.
It won’t stop there, though.
Yet what none of these folks will say is that if gun control actually worked like they say it does, this would be a moot point. Full-auto switches are part of the most heavily regulated class of firearms in this country, and yet street thugs are getting them pretty regularly.
Funny, that.
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