Taxpayer-Funded Lawfare: Blue State AGs Sue GLOCK Over Illegal Conversion Switches

It the latest salvo of lawfare launched against a lawful firearm manufacturer, New Jersey’s enthusiastically hoplophobic Attorney General, Matt Platkin, announced yesterday that he had filed suit against GLOCK for…making guns. It seems that Platkin, along with 14 other blue state (and DC) AGs, object to the fact that criminals have figured out a way to illegally convert Gen3 GLOCK pistols into full-auto firearms with the use of so-called GLOCK switches.

This, of course, is nothing new. Earlier this year, the city of Chicago, with an assist from Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown gun control advocacy operation, also sued GLOCK over criminals’ use of illegal switches. That suit was filed after the plaintiffs (allegedly) illegally colluded with the Biden White House’s Ministry of Gun Control. So yesterday’s suit was just the latest move

We could take some time to attack what Platkin and his fellow AGs are doing here, but Daniel Francisco, the Mayor of Englishtown, New Jersey has already ndone a wonderful job of that. Click on the tweet below to read it all . . .

As you’d imagine, the NSSF is none too pleased about the latest use of taxpayer dollars being used to attack a law-abiding company that’s making and selling highly regulated legal products that tens of millions of Americans want to buy . . .

NSSF, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, denounces the coordinated “lawfare” effort by Democratic state attorneys general to abuse the judicial system through frivolous claims against a firearm manufacturer. New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin, joined by Minnesota’s Attorney General Keith Ellison along with 13 other states and the District of Columbia, are coordinating and repeating the unfounded claims against GLOCK, Inc., filed by the City of Chicago, which wrongfully colluded with the Biden-Harris White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention and the gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety. That improper collusion is currently under investigation by the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and Government Accountability Committee.

“This is clearly an abuse of the courts to attempt to circumvent the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA),” said Lawrence G. Keane, NSSF Senior Vice President and General Counsel. “Attorneys General Platkin and Ellison, along with the other colluding states, are attempting to extend the frivolous claims that have no foundation in law and abuse taxpayer dollars to advance an unconstitutional gun control agenda. These claims are a devious manipulation of the courts by attempting to force a gun control agenda through judicial fiat and are contrary to the will of lawmakers and are expressly prohibited by federal law. This is the very definition of ‘lawfare’ and should be rejected by the courts.”

NSSF previously applauded the House Oversight and Government Accountability Committee for investigating allegations that The White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention collaborated with the antigun billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety and the City of Chicago to target GLOCK, Inc., with a frivolous lawsuit, alleging the company is responsible for the criminal misuse of firearms when criminals unlawfully attach an illegal “switch” to handguns. Everytown for Gun Safety is representing the City of Chicago in the lawsuit. In previous demands for information, House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) noted, “On the very day the suit was filed, Everytown for Gun Safety President John Feinblatt posted on X, ‘Federal officials recently contacted Glock to discuss implementing new ways to modify Glock pistols to make it harder for Glock switches to be installed. Rather than help, Glock falsely insisted there is nothing they can do.’”

The devices are “autosears,” which are illegal to make, import, possess and attach to a firearm or use without compliance with the 1934 National Firearms Act (NFA). Attorneys General Platkin and Ellison and the other colluding states ignore the fact that these devices aren’t produced by GLOCK, Inc., or any other firearm manufacturer. In fact, they are largely illegally imported from China or illegally manufactured by criminals. GLOCK, Inc., has actively cooperated with federal, state and local law enforcement to combat this illegal activity.

 

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  1. democRat AGs just trying to keep they peeps safe! WTF, criminal usage of a legal firearm and Glock has to change their design?! Liberal logic truly is ideocracy