Goley flipped on Johnson after being arrested on Friday. Goley was the street level dealer of the pair, and Johnson was the supplier. Would you be able to get rid of 500 switches?” “It’s gonna go to the people who want to go shoot some people, gangbangers, and shit,” Goley told the undercover officer, according to the affidavit filed in the case. The Undercover agent negotiated a deal with Goley for ten more switches at a discount price of $275 per device. Later in the same month, Goley sold two more devices to an undercover agent posing as the informant’s uncle. In September, Goley sold two of the Glock Selector Switches to ATF informants for $1000. “ATF agents in the Chicago Field Division will continue to work diligently with their state, local, and federal partners to identify sources of these devices to ensure the safety of the community.” “Devices that are designed and intended to convert firearms into machine guns pose a significant threat to public safety,” ATF spokesperson Kimberly Nerheim said to the press after the arrests of the two men. The ATF didn’t state how many of the devices Johnson sold before his arrest. The ATF has been tracking the sale of the item for over a year. Up until a few months ago, these switches were readily available on and other websites for between $30 and $75. The man admitted to agents that he was selling the switches to others for up to $500. Although the Chicago field division has taken the lead on the crackdown, agents have made arrests in Alaska, California, Kansas, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, and Rhode Island.Īgents found over 100 of the switches in Johnson’s residents. AmmoLand sources inside the ATF reports that the agency plans to move on to others who ordered the switches. These arrests lead to the confiscation of 256 switches. Out of the 2500 people, the ATF has only arrested 118 for possessing the devices.

The ATF has the information of 2500 people in the country that have ordered the parts from China. The ATF has decided to target the buyers of the switches instead of the sites. Most websites have removed the switches, but since most companies are Chinese, the ATF is powerless to charge the sites’ owners with a crime for selling the devices. The ATF started tracking the shipments and cracking down on the website’s customers. The switch allowed the user to convert the pistol from a semi-automatic firearm to a machine gun. It does not store any personal data.In the past, Chinese websites like & sold the small Glock Selector Switches that replace the black plate on the popular handgun’s slide. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Performance'. This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Necessary'. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category 'Functional'.

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