Omis ferm talks with alon stevens from the trates about his reporting on auto seers that can turn your everyday hand guns into machine guns. All the more terrifying because it's easy to do and a lot of people are doing it, even though it's illegal. But i will say this one universal, pretty much everyone in the law enforcement community is saying that this machine gun problem is probably not going back in the jar. And so they're going to have to really rethink how they move forward.
For less than $20 plus shipping everyday people can turn their handguns into machine guns. The Trace’s Alain Stephens explains the rise of the “auto-sear.”
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Richard Sima and Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram
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