Feb 12, 2025 · Roughly half the people arrested with modified Glocks since the beginning of 2023 were under 21 years old, according to the suit. The complaint alleges that Glock switches are adding to a culture of violence among young men across Baltimore. Filed in state court in Baltimore, the lawsuit accuses Glock of violating Maryland’s public nuisance laws.

Feb 12, 2025 · BALTIMORE -- Baltimore is suing gunmaker Glock over design features that allow its handguns to be easily modified to become fully automatic weapons, which enables criminals to inflict more damage ...

Feb 12, 2025 · Glock switches in Baltimore. According to Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley, the department has seen a sharp increase in the recovery of modified Glocks with numbers nearly doubling ...

Feb 12, 2025 · He had a modified Glock — 33 shell casings were found from the suspect's weapon," Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said.Baltimore police said officers seized 35 modified Glock ...

Feb 12, 2025 · Baltimore officials have filed a lawsuit against firearms manufacturer Glock, demanding that the Austrian-owned company do more to prevent its weapons from being turned into machine guns.. The ...

Feb 12, 2025 · safety crisis in Baltimore and Maryland. Glock created a pistol designed to accommodate semiautomatic or automatic firing, knew that the semiautomatic version could be easily modified with an auto sear by civilians to fire fully automatically in violation of U.S. laws, promoted the fully automatic capabilities of the design, and continues to ...

Feb 12, 2025 · Maryland and the City of Baltimore have sued Glock Inc., seeking to hold the gun company liable for the proliferation of devices popularly known as “Glock switches” that illegally convert its semi-automatic handguns into automatic weapons.. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday at the Baltimore City, Maryland, circuit court comes after Glock and its parent company Glock Ges.m.b.H. were sued over ...

Feb 12, 2025 · Maryland and the city of Baltimore sued Glock on Wednesday, seeking to force one of the country's largest gun sellers to take steps to prevent owners from modifying its products into automatic ...

Feb 12, 2025 · The state and the city of Baltimore sued gun maker Glock on Wednesday for its failure to stop the rising trend of its handguns being modified into machine-gun-like weapons used in violent crimes.

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Maryland and the city of Baltimore sued Glock on Wednesday, seeking to force one of the country's largest gun sellers to take steps to prevent owners from modifying ...