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The City of Chicago filed a lawsuit against handgun maker Glock on March 19, 2024, claiming that Glock is liable for the ease with which a “Glock switch” can be used to convert the semiautomatic handguns into full-auto.
The City of Chicago is partnering with Mike Bloomberg-affiliated Everytown for Gun Safety in the lawsuit.the lawsuit “reports that law enforcement personnel in Chicago have recovered over 1,100 Glocks that have been converted into illegal machine guns in the last two years alone in connection with a wide variety of crimes, including homicides, aggravated assaults, batteries, kidnappings, burglaries, home invasions, carjackings, and attempted robberies.
The press release claims that the lawsuit “alleges that selling a weapon that can be so easily converted to an illegal machine gun and failing to take reasonable steps to prevent or mitigate the problem is an unfair business practice, is negligent, and creates, maintains, and contributes to a public nuisance.”The City of Chicago is encountering a deadly new frontier in the gun violence plaguing our communities because of the increase of fully automatic Glocks on our streets.
The lawsuit against Glock is the first suit filed under Illinois’s Firearms Industry Responsibility Act; an Act signed into law by Gov. J.B. Pritzker in 2023. Chicago and Everytown point to China as one of the sources for “auto sears” — the central component of a “Glock switch” — but they do not explain the degree to which China is allegedly committed to saturating the United States with such switches., revealed that Chinese companies, which are heavily regulated by the Chinese government, are flooding the United States with auto sear switches, small metal devices also known as “Glock switches,” that can convert handguns into machine guns.
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