AG Brown and City of Baltimore File Lawsuit Seeking to Hold Glock Accountable for Manufacturing and Selling Pistols That Are Easily Turned Into Illegal Machine Guns Using ‘Glock Switches’
Published Date: Feb 12, 2025
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AG Anthony G. Brown and Baltimore MayorBrandon Scott, alongside Everytown Law and Motley Rice LLC, filed a lawsuit against Glock, Inc.,the manufacturer of handguns most frequently recovered in connection with crimes, alleging that Glock isfacilitating the proliferation of illegal machine guns on the streets of Baltimore and across Maryland. Thelawsuit also names Glock Ges.m.b.H, the Austria-based parent company of Glock, Inc., the U.S.subsidiary. The lawsuit alleges that Glock unreasonably endangers and harms public health and safety in Marylandby manufacturing and selling to Maryland civilians semiautomatic pistols that can easily be converted toillegal machine guns with an auto sear – a cheap, small device commonly known as a “Glock switch.”