Attorney General Antony G. Brown and Mayor Baltimore Brandon Scott filed a lawsuit against the Glock weapon manufacturer on Wednesday, Inc. to consider the company responsible for the sale of semi -automatic guns that can be turned into illegal machine guns using “Glock Switch”.
The lawsuit also states that Glock produces pistols that are most often recovered in connection with crimes on the streets of Baltimore and across the Maryland state.
“We will not allow the weapon industry to blind the view of the bereaved family and achieves profit because of the lives of people. This case shows that our office will consider members of the firearm industry responsibility for their role in the epidemic of weapons violence,” Brown said. “It is unacceptable for companies to distribute and market a product that they know can easily change to inflict terrorism communities from Maryland.”
Brown and Scott state in a lawsuit that Glock threatens and harms public health and safety in Maryland product and sale of semi -automatic pistols of Maryland civilians, which can be easily transformed into machine guns with an automatic series, which is a cheap, small device most commonly known as “Glock switch”.
A handling device for a handmade gun can turn a glow into a machine gun after a “switch” has been installed. It can be made with a 3-D printer. (Photo John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
In a statement that Brown’s Office said that the mitralians were very regulated and limited to Maryland and federal law almost 100 years due to their “extreme danger”, the lawsuit filed on Wednesday states that Glock’s permanent gun sales that you are easily transformed into completely Automatic weapons, and the company refuses to solve problems, allows criminals to arrest with completely automatic fire power.
Brown’s office also said that an agent at the alcohol, tobacco, firearm and explosives (ATF), the use of weapons equipped with car -sears was “one of the most terrible things” that the Agency has been dealing with for decades. “Once they are installed, Glock switches allow guns to fire up to 1,200 bullets per minute – the faster, or faster than many completely automatic firearms and machine guns used by the United States,” AG said.
Filed in Maryland District Court In Baltimore City, a lawsuit is the first to use the Liability Law in Maryland Weapons Industry, which was signed into the law in 2024.
General lawyer Maryland Anthony Brown has filed a lawsuit against the GLOCK weapon manufacturer, Inc., for the production of a gun that can easily be converted into a machine gun with a Glock switch. (Kim Hairstyles/Baltimore Sun/Tribune News Service via Getty Image)
The law prohibits members of firearms to consciously contribute to any damage to the public through sale, production, distribution or marketing Products related to firearms.
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3D printed Glock switch can convert a semi -automatic firearm into a machine gun. (Brett Coomer/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images)
However, the lawsuit claims that between 2023 and 2024, at least 100 illegally modified Glock guns were removed from the crime scene and related to the criminal investigations of the Baltimore Police Directorate.
Prosecutors seek a command that prevents Glock to continue selling guns “easily alternating” civilians in Maryland, as well as relief in the form of restitution and decrease.
“Dealing with an epidemic of weapons violence in our communities means to keep all those responsible, from those who pull the trigger to those who facilitate access – and modify weapons,” Scott said. “As we continue with the historical reduction of murders and non -faultal shootings in Baltimore, we must continue to double our efforts to lower the violence even more.”
