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Chicago sues Glock, alleging company facilitates proliferation of machine guns in city
ABC News Local ^ | March 19, 2025 | ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team

Posted on 03/19/2024 2:43:19 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chicago announced a first-of-its-kind lawsuit Tuesday against Glock, the manufacturer of some of the most popular handguns in the U.S., alleging Glock is facilitating the proliferation of illegal machine guns in the city, a news release from the mayor's office said.

"The lawsuit alleges that Glock unreasonably endangers Chicagoans by manufacturing and selling in the Chicago civilian market semiautomatic pistols that can easily be converted to illegal machine guns with an auto sear - a cheap, small device commonly known as a 'Glock switch,'" the release said.

The suit is the first to use Illinois' new Firearms Industry Responsibility Act, passed and signed into law in 2023 to hold gun companies accountable for conduct that endangers the public, the mayor's office said.

The suit was filed Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court, and reports law enforcement have recovered over 1,100 Glocks converted to machine guns in the last two years in connection with a variety of crimes.

"The lawsuit alleges that Glock knows it could fix the problem but refuses to do so, and the City is seeking a court order requiring Glock to cease sales of its easily converted pistols to Chicago civilians. The City also seeks penalties against Glock and damages for the harm that Glock has caused to the City," the release said.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc7chicago.com ...


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To: Fungi
These decerebrated clowns should be defenestrated.

From the 110th floor of the Willis Tower.

21 posted on 03/19/2024 2:58:58 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If the standard is “if it saves just one life” and collective punishment is the cure to violence, then Chicago should arrest and imprison every black male between 13 and 50. After all, if it just saves one life...


22 posted on 03/19/2024 2:59:30 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Glock needs to sue Chicago for harassment and being a pain in the ass in general.


23 posted on 03/19/2024 3:01:20 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Could a "caravan" of freeloading U.S. citizens be able to make it into Mexico before they are shot?)
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To: NorthMountain

“decerebrate”

I’ve learned a new word.


24 posted on 03/19/2024 3:01:25 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: tuffydoodle

I have two Glocks for sale...anyone want more info let me know


25 posted on 03/19/2024 3:02:30 PM PDT by Osage Orange (I miss Rush)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Talk about barking up the wrong tree.


26 posted on 03/19/2024 3:03:02 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Personally, having fired a bunch of full-auto firearms, a full-auto handgun would be impossible to control. The second and all subsequent rounds would be aimed at the moon.


27 posted on 03/19/2024 3:03:04 PM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So now they will not prosecute the Bros that get gun illegally and commit crimes with them but prosecute the company that made the gun ... STUPID Virus has attacked again.


28 posted on 03/19/2024 3:04:03 PM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

inanimate objects on trial for murder not those behind them, a truly utopian rat world


29 posted on 03/19/2024 3:05:44 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

inanimate objects on trial for murder not those behind them, a truly utopian rat world


30 posted on 03/19/2024 3:05:47 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These scum already sued Kia and Hyundai because too easy to steal.


31 posted on 03/19/2024 3:06:30 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: moovova

‘tis indeed a good day.


32 posted on 03/19/2024 3:07:04 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Are Glock’s the only pistol that can convert with an auto-sear?


33 posted on 03/19/2024 3:09:22 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: DugwayDuke

They would need a pistol brace wire stock added


34 posted on 03/19/2024 3:11:15 PM PDT by desertsolitaire
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Clearly preempted by the Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. The problem will be getting this up to SCOTUS if Chicago’s lawyers were smart enough to plead this in a way to avoid removal to federal district court.


35 posted on 03/19/2024 3:15:33 PM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: Fai Mao

Stolen guns aren’t too expensive. Especially for drug dealers.


36 posted on 03/19/2024 3:19:27 PM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: antidemoncrat

“...STUPID Virus has attacked again...”

What’s the use of being a democrat if you can’t act like one?


37 posted on 03/19/2024 3:22:12 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: desertsolitaire

desertsolitaire wrote: “They would need a pistol brace wire stock added”

Minor improvement. A pistol is so light, the recoil would be uncontrollable.


38 posted on 03/19/2024 3:22:25 PM PDT by DugwayDuke (Most pick the expert who says the things they agree with.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"The lawsuit alleges that Glock knows it could fix the problem but refuses to do so, and the City is seeking a court order requiring Glock to cease sales of its easily converted pistols to Chicago civilians.

How long before the Biden ATF reclassifies Glocks as machine guns because they are "readily convertible?"

39 posted on 03/19/2024 3:25:05 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Worse than that, other gun manufacturers need to be sued because of the threat of converting their guns to nuclear weapons...


40 posted on 03/19/2024 3:25:36 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperately need him)
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