Where do you stand on switches?

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[ADevilYouKhow]

that's interesting you mention that, afaik DIASes/lightning links are almost never used for crime, despite them being just as easy to 3d print as switches and legal examples being in wide circulation. before the hughes amendment, machinists were pumping them out for the fukk of it - for example there are more FAL autosears on the registry than there were FALs ever imported - and they were so cheap back then that you couldn't give them away. my pet theory is that it's cause "R-DIAS" doesn't rhyme with anything so drill listeners don't know to ask their 3d printing plug for them.

so this is a made up number then, soundthinking/shotspotter's admitted in court to fabricating data "all the time."

ShotSpotter is a Failure. What’s Next? - MacArthur Justice

One year ago, the MacArthur Justice Center (MJC) published a study on the dangerous inaccuracy of ShotSpotter, a surveillance system that purports to detect the sounds and location of gunfire.

www.macarthurjustice.org

Gunshot-Detecting Tech Is Summoning Armed Police to Black Neighborhoods

A Motherboard investigation found that ShotSpotter frequently generates false alerts—and it's deployed almost exclusively in non-white neighborhoods.

www.vice.com

i stopped reading after i got to the glenn thrush byline; he always fills his articles on this topic with falsehoods. it figures that a sexual predator like him would habitually publish lies to get firearms banned, he wants easy prey.

Good catch. I didn’t realize they rebranded.

 

[NZA]

These makeshift machine guns — able to inflict indiscriminate carnage in seconds — are helping fuel the national epidemic of gun violence, making shootings increasingly lethal, creating added risks for bystanders and leaving survivors more grievously wounded, according to law enforcement authorities and medical workers.

The growing use of switches, which are also known as auto sears, is evident in real-time audio tracking of gunshots around the country, data shows. Audio sensors monitored by a public safety technology company, Sound Thinking, recorded 75,544 rounds of suspected automatic gunfire in 2022 in portions of 127 cities covered by its microphones, according to data compiled at the request of The New York Times. That was a 49 percent increase from the year before.


Is the NYT blowing things out of proportion?

NYT has to be taken with a grain of salt and the sources they cite have to be checked because they perpetuate narratives from various sectors of the status quo during times before major foreign or domestic policy initiatives. they uncritically push stuff like crack babies during the super predator era, WMD before the iraq war, etc. they are a mouthpiece for cops, spies, or corporations until it is in style to issue mea culpas.

so when i see them using this Sound Thinking company as a source, it makes me want to investigate that and whatever criminal laws or government spending they may be trying to get passed.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

NYT has to be taken with a grain of salt and the sources they cite have to be checked because they perpetuate narratives from various sectors of the status quo during times before major foreign or domestic policy initiatives. they uncritically push stuff like crack babies during the super predator era, WMD before the iraq war, etc. they are a mouthpiece for cops, spies, or corporations until it is in style to issue mea culpas.

so when i see them using this Sound Thinking company as a source, it makes me want to investigate that and whatever criminal laws or government spending they may be trying to get passed.

So it’s probably just a lot of noise no pun intended

The rappers, TikToks, and YouTube’s are also distorting their prevalence

 

[NZA]

So it’s probably just a lot of noise no pun intended

The rappers, TikToks, and YouTube’s are also distorting their prevalence

there can be a disconnect between prevalence and impact. people can show them off but are they really shooting people with them in any significant number?

i think we can see that extended mags have made an impact - there are more shootings where the amount of bullets used is pretty high. carbines have made an impact since they are favored by spree shooters, do more damage than pistols, and require different police tactics to counter. switches dont really seem to be doing anything in society yet.

 

[ADevilYouKhow]

there can be a disconnect between prevalence and impact. people can show them off but are they really shooting people with them in any significant number?

i think we can see that extended mags have made an impact - there are more shootings where the amount of bullets used is pretty high. carbines have made an impact since they are favored by spree shooters, do more damage than pistols, and require different police tactics to counter. switches dont really seem to be doing anything in society yet.

The doctor in the article felt it was a noticeable impact


Absolutely regarding extended mags etc