What does communist China get up to with steel and coal from Australia and other places? Well, it makes things, like machine gun parts, and according to a new book, by Breitbart News Senior Contributor Peter Schweizer, Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans, this is communist China's "disintegration warfare" strategy, to destroy America from within. The aim is to get a part, known as an auto sear switch, into the hands of gangs, who can use the parts to make a semi auto gun into full auto, a machine gun. The devices have been linked to a rise in recent years of the use of fully automatic firearms by American gangs, especially in pitched gun battles.
As expected, the main venue for getting these devises into the country is the open southern border, using migrant mules, and military age Chinese, who no doubt would carry some of these sears on their person, along with their expensive mobile phones and designer shoes. It is but one more joy of migrant diversity.
"The Communist Chinese government has been flooding the United States with illicit gun parts as part of a "Disintegration Warfare" strategy it is employing against America aimed at tearing the country apart from the inside, according to a blockbuster new book by Breitbart News Senior Contributor Peter Schweizer.
In Blood Money: Why the Powerful Turn a Blind Eye While China Kills Americans, Schweizer reveals how Chinese companies, which are heavily regulated by the Chinese government, are flooding the U.S. with auto sear switches, a small metal device also known as "Glock switches" that can convert handguns into machine guns. They are illegal for most gun-owners in the U.S., but are being shipped in boxes by the "thousands" from China, Schweizer reveals.
As with fentanyl, the Chinese government is sending the auto sear switches to sow chaos and death inside the U.S. as part of a "Disintegration Warfare" strategy, according to Schweizer.
The "Disintegration Warfare" strategy, Schweizer writes, "focuses on—in the Chinese leaders' words—going after the United States' 'soft underbelly' in terms of politics, economics, and the spirit and psychology of [its] people." It is based on the ancient Chinese strategist and general Sun Tzu's teachings on how to win a war without fighting. The strategy is aimed at undermining a rival country's "national will, values, and cohesion."
In Blood Money, Schweizer uses leaked U.S. federal law enforcement documents to reveal how China is trying to arm felons and criminal gangs across the U.S. with these auto sear switches.
The devices, which are about the size of a penny, started arriving in the U.S. in large quantities in 2018. They are illegal in the U.S. except for use by law enforcement personnel and a select group of others who must obtain a federal license requiring an extensive criminal background check. Thus, criminals in the U.S. purchase them illegally from China via Chinese websites that are in English and target Americans, Schweizer writes.
Accordingly, between 2019 and 2021, there was a rise of 4,200 percent in incidents involving machine gun fire in 130 American cities, Schweizer reveals. Although some of the illegal auto switches are made on 3D printers in the U.S., "the vast majority on the street" are from China and are of much higher quality that those made on 3D printers, Schweizer writes.
As U.S. law enforcement has become better at identifying these switches coming from China, Chinese producers have switched tactics and increasingly are shipping them to Mexico and smuggling them across the border into the U.S., where they eventually end up in the hands of gangs, felons, and drug dealers. And drug cartels in Mexico are also starting to manufacture the devices themselves, using machines provided by Chinese companies, Schweizer reveals. He writes:
This is a strikingly similar replay of the Chinese government's strategy with fentanyl: when US authorities successfully began blocking shipments sent from China via mail or parcel, Chinese sellers switched to a land bridge in Mexico to continue supplying these devices to criminals in the United States. This is "delivery saturation around the United States," warned the Department of Homeland Security in an internal memo obtained by the author, with a map showing that distribution is concentrated in major cities including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit, Miami, Washington, New York, and Philadelphia.
Not surprisingly, the number of switches seized by law enforcement officials investigating crimes jumped by a startling "570% during a period of 2017 to 2021, compared to the previous five years," according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF)."