‘Glock switch’ bill is driving up gun sales in Connecticut, dealers say

By: Sasha Allen, Angela Eichhorst

Outlets: Rhode Island Current

Published: April 28, 2026

Words: 1,244

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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This article first appeared on CT Mirror and is republished here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut’s proposed sale ban on “convertible pistols,” prompted by an increase in seized machine guns and devices that can turn ordinary pistols into machine guns, is driving up gun sales, gun dealers say.

HB 5043, which aims to ban handguns that can be easily converted into machine guns using …

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