Georgia state Rep. Sandra Scott reportedly wants to ban Glock automatic weapon conversion devices.

State Rep. Sandra Scott, Dim-Rex, previously told The Center Square she plans to file several pieces of legislation, including a measure to prevent Glock owners from turning the guns into automatic weapons.

As of this writing, I do not see a Scott bill to ban the manufacture of automatic weapons. I have emailed Scott to see if she can provide advance text, or at least a bill number when filed.

Because — as the clued-in probably guessed — it sounds a bit redundant. After all, the National Firearms Act of 1934, as mended by the Firearm Owners Protection Act of 1986, already makes the manufacture of machine guns, by anyone other than an FFL who has paid the SOT, unlawful. And those machine guns aren’t generally transferable to us common, little people.

Georgia law, specifically § 16-11-122, makes possession of machine guns illegal. There are lawful exceptions in § 16-11-124; most notably if the firearm is properly registered under the aforementioned NFA.

True, Georgia law doesn’t seem to specifically ban the manufacture, but once to add the conversion device to the handgun, you’re in possession (see above paragraph).

For that matter, a conversion device is itself a “machinegun” as defined in 26 U.S. Code § 5845.

The term shall also include the frame or receiver of any such weapon, any part designed and intended solely and exclusively, or combination of parts designed and intended, for use in converting a weapon into a machinegun

Possession of the device is possession of a machinegun under federal and state law. Just ask the folks the ATF has charged with felony possession of unregistered machinguns for giggle switches, lightning links, flat pieces of metal, and wall-hooks.

I strongly suspect that urban gangbangers putting giggle switches on their Glocks are not FFL/SOTs, nor did they register their giggle switches by the 1986 deadline for lawful possession (I don’t know how many Glocks were even in US non-government hands in ’86).