If you don’t know what a GLOCK switch is, you can catch up here, here, and here. Long story short, they’re illegal devices that convert a perfectly legal stock semi-automatic GLOCK pistol into a fully automatic bullet hose. They’re very popular with gang members these days and they’re getting easier to get on the street thanks to inexpensive 3D printing technology.
A reader sent us a link to the a web site called glockswitchs dot com. And yes, you’re looking at that right.
Their logo says GLOCK SWICTH, not switch.
Perusing their site, they appear to sell not only GLOCK switches, but GLOCK pistols and magazines, too. Stay on the site for any amount of time at all and this pop-up appears . . .
That looks a lot like the switches that are/were available through a number of Chinese knock-off sites, but maybe that’s just a coincidence.
The big news, though is that you can get some serious bargains there. Check this out . . .
If you’re not very handy and don’t want to fiddle with installing your own GLOCK switch, glockswitchs dot com also sells GLOCK G18 pistols, the Real McCoy fully automatic handgun that GLOCK actually produces. You can pick one up here for the low, low price of only $500. That seems like a great deal since a G18 parts kit goes for $10,000 at Gunbroker.
The site even has a really helpful chat feature so you can ask questions.
They file all the paperwork and get your switch to you in seven days. Now that’s service.
We can’t decide if this thing is just a run-of-the-mill internet scam that’s out to take as many credit card payments from unsuspecting basement-dwellers before they hightail it out of town…or whether it’s a full-on ATF sting operation.
What’s your take?
If it’s too good to be true…
What does that mean?
If something sounds too good to be true, it’s a scam 99.999% of the time…..Or a sting……Or he’s a wannabe Full Auto Mag Dumper.
I’ve lived my life by these 3 tenets….Believe 1/2 of what you see and none of what you hear, Born at night but not last night, and yes, If it sounds too good to be true walk away because it ain’t true…..
😂😂😂
Uhm, about that gunbroker.com G18 ‘parts kit’ for the low, low price of $10,000?
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/1024243665
Why does the ad say *this*?
“Used Condition
FFL is not required”
Isn’t a transferring SOT also an FFL?
FFL isn’t required on demilled frames per ATF rules. You can buy all the sub machine gun parts you want on gunbroker. They are to be rebuilt as semiauto or nonfunctional displays.
Too dumb a stunt for a scammer. It’s got to be the asshats over at ATF.
why not both?
Definitely both. They just might not be working together. Scammers steal the victims money. Meanwhile, the ATF, who have been watching the traffic on the sight using their unconstitutional snooping tools, go and further victimize them by arresting them for attempted acquisition of an unregistered machine gun because FYTW and they hate you.
Either that or the ATF will raid them not because they defrauded a bunch of people, not because they’re selling without an FFL but because of their “client” list.
Even if you never got it trying to get one from a place like that is certain to be considered conspiracy or close enough to count.
There is a third and likely option. This is a Chinese operation, run out of China as an operation to get as many of these counterfeit but functional products into our cities to create as much havoc as possible.
What a wonderful juxtaposition to see scammers ripping off stupid thugs that want the latest in trendy gang gats.
Karma can be a cruel mistress.
Oops, I thought that said “Kamala can be a cruel mistress.”
My bad
“Oops, I thought that said “Kamala can be a cruel mistress.””
I have *shockingly* low standards when it comes to that, and even I have zero interest in a taste of that… 🙁
willie b,
you’d be one of just MANY, I’m sure, to know that !!
I’m not even going to go to the site, that’s how much I trust it. If you want a legal G18, go to your local FFL with a valid SOT. The risk here isn’t worth the $10k fine and 10 years of free room and board.
Any thoughts on why that gunbroker G18 parts kit was listed as “No FFL required”?
maybe because it’s a parts kit and not an actual firearm? parts kits don’t require an FFL. Hence the “parts” part of the description…
Ditto. Especially in my part of the world.
The FBI supposedly ran eBay sales for screw adapters to easily fit oil filter silencers to your 1/2-28 AR muzzle thread. Anything’s possible. I wouldn’t even go to the website unless I used a burner phone or borrowed some else’s communicator.
Anyone stupid enough to use that site deserves what they get.
It glows!
Neither, an anti-gun .org commissioned this site.
Now the .org can point to the site and scream about needing to close the “internet loophole” (institute UBC) because machine guns are being freely sold over the internet.
I wonder how many black teenagers will be arrested trying to buy through this web site?? Or will they just avoid it by go to a backalley car open trunk, “switch dealership”.
I can’t imagine these teenagers going to a website to buy a glock switch. They’re probably used to dealing with a dealer directly and in person.
But I suspect a lot of uneducated. White people who don’t understand how the system works, will be swept up by the feds. In this sting operation.
You apparently. Still haven’t learned. The proper use of periods.🙄
My struggle continues.
big(smile)
btw
When only black teenagers take the bait. And no one else falls for this. Will the government prosecute anyone???
I seriously doubt they will.
And will the “gun community” stand up for the rights of teenagers (18 & 19) to possess machine guns???
I also seriously doubt they will.
They provide aa pause-for-effect………….
Domain lookup: created Halloween 2023. Owner info is unknown but the mailing address is Kalkofnsvegur 2, Reykjavik, Capital Region, 101, IS, which shows up on other scam sites, according to The Internet.
“Ha! Just as I suspected Chief Inspector Dreyfus. This has originated in the terrorist hotbed of Iceland !! I will leave at once, right after i finish my hamburgerer.”
– Inspector Clouseau
Reykjavik, Iceland? I do know they have an internet domain hosting industry there, power is cheap, and waste CPU heat heats the city…
Iceland.
RE: “What’s your take?”
Can it be gift wrapped? Asking for a friend.
Jesus. No…Just NO.
I assuming they only take crypto in payment.
Better send them a crypto mailing address as well, or the feds will be busting down your real address door.
If it is an ATF sting operation, I think you could easily claim entrapment since they said they handle all the paperwork with the ATF for you. For that reason alone, I’d say scam.
There is no such thing as entrapment anymore.
Well for drugs anyway.
I suppose The War on Gunms covers that too.
“There’s a sucker born every minute”.
–P.T. Barnum (attributed)
Didn’t ATF make money for their agents selling untaxed cigarettes? This is likely just part two of that operation.
It doesn’t matter who put it out there. It’s a scam regardless. Even if it’s real, it’s still a scam. Anyone that orders one will likely get a knock at their door. Any order that gets filled with an actual switch will likely get a knock at their door with a multitude of armed ATF agents.
At the very least, it’s fake and it just wants credit card info so it’s the same either way.
…from what I have seen of gun-related scam websites- and I saw more than a few claiming to have ammo ‘in stock’ during the BLM/covid panic buying- they ‘support’ payment via bitcoin, paypal, zelle, etc, but usually do not take major credit cards.
who needs a glock switch when one has atomic grenades?
Scam? Sting? Fake? Propaganda? Who cares. Anyone dumb enough to fall for anything this obvious deserves whatever consequences they receive.
Site manager Ray Epps. I don’t see the big deal.
TTAG should make a purchase. Loss can be written off as a business expense and should the feebies come knocking you can always claim investigative journalisming.
Kind of like when the news organization(s) had a high (standard) capacity magazine in DC, even though they were illegal.
LOL … let this continue and let the gangbangers get burned either via ATF, or card scammers (a lot of these scammers are gangbangers themselves).
Probably a scammer in Haiti or Jamaica using a proxy through Iceland to cover it up, yeah go for it…
From the little bit of my knowledge on the subject, i tend to think our gangbanging friends lean more towards cash operations.
Scam: All newly manufactured fully automatic weapons manufactured after May 19, 1986 cannot be owned by American citizens. This is made the market for weapons made before that date skyrocket. Damned few are available for sale and the few that are run easily in the tens of thousands.
ATF fishing scam? Highly likely.
Check whois.com and find out who registered the domain and when?
its registered through NameCheap, Inc. by a registrant in Reykjavik. it was registered in the last few months. Most likely a scam. NameCheap, Inc. is known to be a favorite of scammers.
plus, the same registrant in Reykjavik address shows up in other places being a known scammer.
Anyone else look at the gunbroker listing? There’s nothing in it that isn’t on a standard glock.
Well, except for the slide with the non-standard giggle switch.
The Biggest Second Amendment Violation That No One Has Talked About…Until Now.
Many (or most) old folks homes (Independent or Assised living) have restriction in their contract on having firearms in their apartment. Didn’t keep my dad from moving his “armory” with him.
Any many/most college dormitory housing/on campus. While the feminists running the colleges, simultaneous posture that coeds will be violently raped daily by evil white college men.
Sounds like an ATF/FBI/alphabet soup agency spending Obiden bucks. A wacist agency using faux ebonics (SWICTH).
I’ve got Miner49’s credit card.
Stole it last night when he was out in the chicken house pulling the feathers from around the hensasses
Hope you got that peckerheads address too. Would be nice to drain this swamp a little.
ATF, trying to recoup some of their budget they’ve wasted defending their unconstitutional rules in court
Boomer idea, laughable to anyone with some tech savy.
Reality is this won’t catch any actual criminals. Real criminals are openly selling these switches via social media and telegram as openly as they sell cocaine, meth and fentanyl filled fake opioid pills.
if they were selling just the switches, I would assume it’s “real” in the sense that they’ll probably send you one (whether the ATF shows up later is another story… they’re not all stings, though, judging by the appearance of the switches in Chicago schools).
I don’t think they’re actually going to be mailing out glock 18s, though. That’s a different story than a mass-produced piece of plastic. Or is that the definition of a glock?
It’s probably a BATF Sting operation.
Not long ago, the BATF shut down Diversified Machines for selling perfectly legal solvent traps (which the BATF waved their magic wand and said are suddenly “silencer parts and therefore silencers,” just like a shoestring is a machine gun) and other perfectly legal items that are still legal.
When the BATF shut down Diversified Machines, they took the company’s client list and email list. I’d never, ever bought any solvent traps, but I was on the company’s email list, so I got a highly threatening letter from the BATF that basically said they know I have illegal products (BS, as I never bought any solvent traps!) and told me that I should call the BATF to make arrangements to turn them in for amnesty.
Instead of calling the BATF, I called my lawyer. He said that this was a fishing expedition (especially since i’d never, ever bought any solvent traps) and an attempt to entrap people. He warned me that if I tried to be a good obedient citizen, followed the BATF instructions in their letter, and called the BATF to try to explain (or worse yet, tried to “turn in” a solvent trap, which again, I never possessed), the BATF would try to arrest me. He advised me to ignore the letter.
Anyone who tried to be a good citizen and follow the BATF instructions and meet them somewhere to turn in their solvent traps would be arrested, my lawyer said!
The BATF are knot-zee scum (intentional misspelling so I don’t get “moderated”).