Chicago Lawsuit Says Glock Should Be Liable for Pistols Turned Into Machine Guns

Law enforcement officers recovered more than 1,100 modified Glock pistols between the start of 2021 and the end of 2023, the suit says.

A Glock .380 pistol during the National Rifle Association (NRA) annual meeting at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston on May 28, 2022. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images

The city of Chicago is suing Glock, arguing that the gun manufacturer should be liable for gun violence because its products can be modified easily into automatic weapons.

The lawsuit, filed in the Illinois state court system, focuses on the fact that numerous criminal suspects have possessed or used Glock pistols modified with an illegal aftermarket auto-sear device referred to as a “Glock switch.”