MD, Baltimore Mayor Target Glock to sell guns that become machine guns

Maryland’s attorney general Antony G. Brown and the mayor of Baltimore Brandon Scott filed a lawsuit against the manufacturer of Glock, Inc. on Wednesday to hold the company responsible for selling semi -automatic guns that can become illegal machine guns using a “switch glock”.

The demand also alleges that Gock manufactures guns most frequently recovered in relation to crimes in the streets of Baltimore and in the state of Maryland.

“We will not allow the weapons industry to make a blind eye to afflicted families and seek profits about people’s lives. This case shows that our office will hold members of the firearms industry for their role in the epidemic of armed violence, “Brown said. “It is unacceptable for companies to distribute and market a product that they know can be easily modified to inflict terror to Maryland’s communities.”

Brown and Scott allege in the demand that Gock puts in danger and damages public health and safety in Maryland through the manufacture and sale most commonly known as a “glock switch.”

Obama’s judge’s ruling on illegal immigrants who own weapons helps to the left to blur the citizenship lines: Rubio

In a press release, Brown’s office said that despite the fact that machine guns have been strongly regulated and restricted according to Maryland and the federal law for almost 100 years due to their “extreme danger”, the demand filed on Wednesday alleges the sale Continuous glock guns that are easy to be easy to become totally automatic weapons, and the company’s refusal to solve problems, makes it possible for criminals to armen with totally automatic fire power.

Brown’s office also said that an agent of the alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives (ATF) said that the use of weapons equipped with Auto Sears is “one of the most scary things” that the agency has treated in decades. “Once installed, the glock switches allow the guns to shoot up to 1,200 rounds per minute, a speed so fast or faster that, many firearms and completely automatic machine guns used by the United States army,” said the office of the AG.

Filed in him Maryland Circuit Court In the city of Baltimore, the demand is the first to use the new Law of Responsibility of the Gun Gun Industry of Maryland, which was signed in Law in 2024.

Weapons Right Groups as Supreme Court to govern on sweeping Maryland Firear Ban Bench confirmed

The law prohibits members of the firearms industry from contributing to any damage to the public through sales, manufacture, distribution or marketing of Firearms related products.

Gock did not respond to the request for comments from Fox News Digital on the matter.

The Supreme Court makes a decision on the challenges of the weapons law in Delaware, Maryland

Even so, the lawsuit states that between 2023 and 2024, at least 100 illegally modified Gock guns were recovered from the crime scenes and in relation to the criminal investigations of the police department of the city of Baltimore.

The plaintiffs seek an order that prevents Gock continues to sell the “easily modifiable” guns to civilians in Maryland, as well as relief in the form of restitution and reduction.

Click to get the Fox News application

“Confronting the epidemic of armed violence in our communities means holding everyone, from those who pull the trigger to those who make it easier to access and modify, weapons,” Scott said. “As we continue to reach historical reductions in non -fatal homicides and shootings in Baltimore, we must continue to redouble our efforts to further reduce violence.”