Dena J. King, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, announced yesterday that Jacob Ryan McClure, 25, of Waynesville, was sentenced to 33 months in prison followed by three years of supervised released for possession of machine guns. Sheriff’s deputies found in McClure’s vehicle 97 illegal conversion devices, commonly known as “Glock switches,” which are used to convert firearms into machineguns.
Law enforcement also seized four P80 pistols, which are privately manufactured firearms referred to as “Ghost guns,” that had been converted into machineguns with illegal Glock switches. Law enforcement also recovered a conventional Glock firearm that also had a Glock switch installed, an unregistered short-barreled 9mm rifle, 10 unregistered firearm silencers, and $3,000 in cash.