Friend, add your name to tell the General Assembly to take urgent action to prevent mass carnage by keeping unregulated machine gun conversion devices off the streets.
Friend, the Trump administration made a deal with the gun lobby to allow the sale and possession of a device that makes guns more deadly.
Forced Reset Triggers (FRTs) are devices that effectively turn semiautomatic firearms into machine guns by allowing for rapid firing. A bill that would have made these aftermarket parts illegal in Pennsylvania failed last year by a single vote. Opponents of the bill in Harrisburg claimed it was unnecessary due to the federal ban.
Now, after a backroom deal by the Trump administration, there’s nothing stopping people who wish to do harm from obtaining these machine-gun conversion devices without a background check.
Machine guns are weapons of mass destruction that have no place in our neighborhoods. FRTs are just one type of aftermarket device that converts firearms into machine guns capable of inflicting mass carnage at high speed. Glock switches, like the one used in the Memorial Day mass shooting at Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park, are another kind of machine-gun conversion device our legislators urgently need to crack down on.
Bump stocks — attachments that allow semi-automatic guns to fire in rapid succession like fully automatic weapons — were briefly outlawed in the United States after a gunman used them to fire more than 1,000 rounds and murder 60 people at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in 2017. The Supreme Court overturned the ban on bump stocks in 2024, and they’re also now legal and accessible in Pennsylvania.
Friend, we do not have a federal safety net to keep dangerous weapons out of the hands of people who want to cause harm. Now is the time to lean into the power we’ve built at the state level to prevent mass shootings and save lives.
