Baltimore sues Glock over pistols turned machine guns

Alleges manufacturer ignores danger of modifying weapons with cheap switch

By: Jeff Hager
Posted 3:55 PM, Feb 12, 2025 and last updated 6:52 PM, Feb 12, 2025

BALTIMORE — It’s referred to as a “Glock switch,” which can turn a handgun with a 15-round magazine into much, much more.

“A dime-sized device that turns a handgun [into] a weapon capable of firing 1,200 rounds per minute,” explained Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown, “That’s faster than the weapons of war that I used in the Army. ATF agents call it ‘spray and pray’...”

...Pistols produced by the Austrian-owned Glock are the only ones, which can be transformed with such a switch, and it is now a target for legal action from the city and the Maryland Attorney General to stop the sale of its handguns...

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If they want to curb crime, start passing out condoms and start sterilizing people in Baltimore proper.

In my peer group and in my neighborhood, every single person could have a Glock with a switch and 10,000 rounds of ammunition, and not a single crime would be committed with those pistols and there would not be a single unjustified shooting.

It's not the guns, it's the people. Get rid of the thugs. Problem solved.