Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans, Schweizer reveals how Chinese companies, which are heavily regulated by the Chinese government, are flooding the U.S. with auto sear switches, a small metal device also known as "Glock switches" that can convert handguns into machine guns.
In Blood Money, Schweizer uses leaked U.S. federal law enforcement documents to reveal how China is trying to arm felons and criminal gangs across the U.S. with these auto sear switches.
Although some of the illegal auto switches are made on 3D printers in the U.S., "The vast majority on the street" are from China and are of much higher quality that those made on 3D printers, Schweizer writes.
This is a strikingly similar replay of the Chinese government's strategy with fentanyl: when US authorities successfully began blocking shipments sent from China via mail or parcel, Chinese sellers switched to a land bridge in Mexico to continue supplying these devices to criminals in the United States.
In December 2022, US officials in Michigan indicted seven men for procuring switches from China.
The suppressors have also been sold on English websites hosted on Chinese servers and mislabeled when they are shipped to the U.S. The Daily Mail, which reported on the Glock switches revelations in Blood Money, noted recent criminal cases involving the illegal devices, including the fatal shooting of 53-year-old accountant Paul Kutz from Poughkeepsie, New York, whose masked assailant sprayed him with 30 bullets using a handgun modified with a Glock switch.
While American politicians pursue restrictions on American gun manufacturers, they fail to take China to task, Schweizer asserts.
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