Inventor of ‘Glock swap’ expertise says he feels ‘terrified’ of his creation

When Jorge Leon invented on the age of twenty-two a small gadget that turns Glock pistols into totally automated weapons, he stated he meant it for use for the nice of society, to assist the navy and police in his native nation of Venezuela.

But 26 years after being granted a U.S. patent for his "fire selector system," U.S. regulation enforcement officers say his creation is flooding the streets of American cities with these outlawed machine weapons and lots of have fallen into the fingers of teenage criminals indiscriminately utilizing them to wreak havoc on communities each massive and small.

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