A bill that cracks down on machine gun conversion devices, now heads to the House floor.

So-called Glock switches are already illegal under federal law, and House Bill 299 would make them a crime at the state level as well.

Our Laura Rogers brings us more from today's committee hearing.

Good Second Amendment supporters like us always say we don't need new gun laws.

We need to enforce the ones we have.

That's this bill.

It's a federal offense to own a machine gun conversion device.

What this allows us to do is take these off the street when they're already illegal.

But we currently have no ability to enforce that.

That's because these devices are not prohibited under Kentucky law.

And House Bill 299 aims to change that.

This bill doesn't make anything illegal that is not already illegal.

All it does is mirror the federal law with respect to these machine gun conversion devices.

Also called Glock switches.

They can turn a semi-automatic handgun and to an automatic weapon that can fire up to 1200 rounds per minute.

We've also had a police officer who was shot with one of these that was prosecuted by the federal government locally, and we had two people that took, charges on those.

Federal prosecution is the only way to hold a perpetrator with this device accountable.

Even in Louisville, where we have access to many of the federal resources, and we work very well with them.

That is not likely to happen on, the average, incident that we might have.

And Chief Humphrey says those incidents are growing.

He testified this morning that Glock switches were believed to be used in two Louisville shootings just last week.

We know that this is a growing issue.

While supporters of the legislation say it would cut down on violent crime.

Two Republican lawmakers voted no, citing concerns over Second Amendment violations.

And if these devices would just be replaced by something else.

Oh, we stand with our law enforcement.

But I gave my people a word and my word that I would always stand for a Second Amendment right.

And my people back home is going to say that we don't have gangs.

We don't deal with that back home.

A forced reset trigger on a Glock cost about $60.

And I just know that we take these off the streets.

Criminals are going to switch to those.

It's always a moving target.

Despite those concerns, the bill did receive wide support in committee.

You help keep us safe.

And if this helps in any way, I'm proud to offer my support.

So I am at.

Yes on Kentucky tonight.

Last evening, Republican House leadership indicated support for the measure.

The only reason you would really use one of these switches is, for something that that is criminal.

There's also strong bipartisan support from Democratic leadership.

These are killing machines.

These are killing machines.

They're not.

Sport.

But Senate Majority Leader Max wise declined to take a position, saying he'll be monitoring the legislation and discussions surrounding it.

I would just need to see if it's a federal felony law that already exist, then is the law already redundant of what we would look to do, since it's already there's federal felony law.

So I would just need to look into.

That passage with favorable expression.

For Kentucky Edition, I'm Laura Rogers.

Thank you Laura.

The bill was reassigned last week from Judiciary Committee to the veterans, Military Affairs and Public Protection Committee, where it was approved this morning.

It would make possession of a machine gun conversion device a class C felony.