The City of Chicago has filed a new lawsuit against Glock Inc., accusing the gun manufacturer of contributing to the city’s gun violence crisis by designing pistols that can easily be modified into automatic weapons. The lawsuit, filed in state court, comes after the city withdrew a similar federal suit earlier this month.
According to a recent feature by ProPublica, an “auto sear” or “switch,” which is used to convert a Glock semiautomatic pistol into a so-called machine gun capable of a rapid rate of fire, are flooding Chicago as the city grapples with yet another violent summer.
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