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Experts urge state ban on conversion devices after federal rules weakened
Summary
Policy witnesses told Oregon legislators that devices converting semiautomatic firearms to near‑automatic fire—auto sears, forced‑reset triggers and bump stocks—have proliferated and that recent federal regulatory reversals leave states ability and need to act to prohibit these items.
Legal and policy witnesses told the joint informational hearing that conversion devices that dramatically increase a firearm—s rate of fire have proliferated online and through 3‑D printing, and that a state ban is a direct tool available to Oregon.
"Auto sears are small, Lehi‑sized machine gun conversion devices," said Ethan Murray, policy attorney at Giffords, describing the devices often called "Glock switches". He cited ATF data showing a large increase in recovered machine‑gun conversion devices between 2019 and 2023.
Murray walked the committees through three…
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