Maryland Lawyer Normal Antony G. Brown and Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott filed a lawsuit in opposition to gun producer Glock, Inc. on Wednesday to carry the corporate accountable for promoting semi-automatic handguns that may be transformed into unlawful machine weapons utilizing a “Glock Swap.”
The lawsuit additionally alleges that Glock manufactures handguns most regularly recovered in reference to crimes on the streets of Baltimore and throughout the state of Maryland.
“We won’t enable the gun business to show a blind eye to grieving households and pursue revenue over individuals’s lives. This case exhibits that our Workplace will maintain members of the firearms business accountable for his or her position within the gun violence epidemic,” Brown mentioned. “It’s unacceptable for corporations to distribute and market a product that they know can simply be modified to inflict terror on communities throughout Maryland.”
Brown and Scott allege within the lawsuit that Glock endangers and harms public well being and security in Maryland by manufacturing and promoting semi-automatic pistols to Maryland civilians, which may simply be transformed into machine weapons with an auto sear, which is an affordable, small system mostly often called a “Glock Swap.”
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A machine gun conversion system for a Glock hand gun can convert the Glock right into a machine gun after the “swap” is put in. It may be made with a 3-D printer. (Photograph by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe by way of Getty Pictures)
In a press launch, Brown’s workplace mentioned despite the fact that machine weapons have been closely regulated and restricted below Maryland and federal legislation for almost 100 years resulting from their “excessive dangerousness,” the lawsuit filed on Wednesday alleges Glock’s continued sale of pistols which might be simple to transform into fully-automatic weapons, and the corporate’s refusal to repair the problems, makes it attainable for criminals to arm themselves with absolutely automated firepower.
Brown’s workplace additionally mentioned an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) mentioned using weapons geared up with auto sears is “one of many scariest issues” the company has handled in a long time. “As soon as put in, Glock switches enable pistols to fireside as much as 1,200 rounds per minute – a charge as quick as, or quicker than, many absolutely automated firearms and machine weapons utilized by the US navy,” the AG’s workplace mentioned.
Filed within the Circuit Court docket of Maryland in Baltimore Metropolis, the lawsuit is the primary to make use of Maryland’s new Gun Business Accountability Act, which was signed into legislation in 2024.
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Maryland Lawyer Normal Anthony Brown filed a lawsuit in opposition to the gun producer Glock, Inc., for producing a handgun that may simply be transformed right into a machine gun with a Glock Swap. (Kim Hairston/The Baltimore Solar/Tribune Information Service by way of Getty Picture)
The legislation prohibits firearm business members from knowingly contributing to any hurt to the general public by means of the gross sales, manufacturing, distribution or advertising and marketing of firearm-related merchandise.
Glock didn’t reply to Fox Information Digital’s request for touch upon the matter.
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A 3D printed Glock swap can convert a semi-automatic firearm right into a machine gun. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle by way of Getty Pictures)
Nonetheless, the lawsuit claims that between 2023 and 2024, at the least 100 illegally modified Glock pistols have been recovered from crime scenes and in reference to prison investigations by the Metropolis of Baltimore Police Division.
The plaintiffs are looking for an order stopping Glock from persevering with to promote the “simply modifiable” pistols to civilians in Maryland, in addition to aid within the type of restitution and abatement.
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“Confronting the epidemic of gun violence in our communities means holding everybody accountable, from these pulling the set off to these making it simpler to entry — and modify — weapons,” Scott mentioned. “As we proceed to attain historic reductions of homicides and nonfatal shootings in Baltimore, we should proceed to redouble our efforts to drive violence down much more.”Â
