{"id":111240,"date":"2025-02-26T13:18:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/alabama\/alabama-senate-approves-bill-to-make-possessing-a-conversion-device-a-felony\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:18:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:18:57","slug":"alabama-senate-approves-bill-to-make-possessing-a-conversion-device-a-felony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=111240","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Senate approves bill to make possessing a conversion device a felony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Alabama Senate on Tuesday approved a bill that would create a Class C felony for anyone found to be in the possession of Glock switches and other conversion devices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SB116, introduced by Sen. Will Barfoot, R-Pike Road, would make possessing any part or combination of pieces designed to convert a pistol into a machine-gun punishable by a sentence ranging from one year and one day to 10 years in prison.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bill defines a machine-gun as \u201cany weapon which shoots, is designed to shoot, or can be readily restored to shoot, automatically more than one shot, without manual reloading, by a single function of the trigger.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No state law makes Glock switches illegal, though they are already banned under federal law. SB116 would simply introduce harsher state penalties and allow for law enforcement officers to enforce the ban on conversion devices.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAlready, under federal law, these conversion devices are illegal. We\u2019re giving our local law enforcement the ability to arrest and prosecute these folks who take these conversion devices and convert a semi-automatic, legal pistol into a fully automatic weapon,\u201d said Barfoot.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bill was amended on the floor to enforce penalties for possessing a machine-gun conversion device, even if that person was not \u201cknowingly\u201d in possession of one. It passed as amended with a vote of 28-0.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barfoot acknowledged Rep. Philip Ensler, D-Montgomery, for his efforts in introducing the House version of the bill earlier this month and beginning work on the legislation in years prior. A similar bill failed to pass in the Alabama Senate last year, but a bipartisan coalition is pushing for its passage this legislative session.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-6\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div class=\"zox-post-ad-wrap\"><span class=\"zox-ad-label\">Advertisement. Scroll to continue reading.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI am grateful that the Alabama Senate unanimously voted to pass our Glock switch bill to ban devices that convert pistols into machine-guns,\u201d Ensler said in a release. \u201cI now look forward to us moving this important piece of legislation forward in the House and then it being signed into law.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Governor Kay Ivey called for a state ban on these devices in her State of the State address, as part of the \u201cSafer Alabama\u201d bill package designed to bolster public safety and combat gun violence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 -->\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alabama Senate on Tuesday approved a bill that would create a Class C felony for anyone found to be in the possession of Glock switches and other conversion devices. SB116, introduced by Sen. 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