Following Years of Pressure from Everytown to Modify Its Pistols to Not Accept “Glock Switches,” Glock to Discontinue Existing Product Line

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NEW YORK - Following a multi-year, multi-pronged pressure campaign to end the proliferation of semiautomatic pistols that can be easily converted into illegal machine guns with devices known as "Glock switches," Glock is reportedly discontinuing nearly all of its existing pistols and launching new "V Series" models with what the company calls "necessary product updates."

Glock will reportedly cease the manufacture and sale of these easily modifiable pistols by November 30, 2025. In recent years, Glocks modified with switches have caused harm across the country, as cities have seen a sharp increase in these machine guns being used in violent crime. Per a recent Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund report, twenty cities reported recovering more than 560 machine gun conversion devices (MCDs) in 2023 alone, at least two-thirds of which were "Glock switches."

"If the reports are true about Glock, this would be a major victory for the gun safety movement's efforts to hold the gun industry accountable and confirm what Everytown has said all along: it's always been within Glock's power to address this deadly problem," said John Feinblatt, president of Everytown for Gun Safety. "While the reported discontinuation is an important step in the right direction, it only underscores the scope of the damage done, the lives lost, and the communities shattered while Glock sat on its hands. It is imperative that the V Series design prevents the easy conversion of machine gun conversion devices. This is only the beginning of accountability for Glock."

With the company facing mounting grassroots pressure around the devastation caused by modified Glocks, legislative campaigns to force design changes, and a flurry of lawsuits seeking to hold Glock accountable for manufacturing, selling, and marketing pistols uniquely susceptible to a third-party auto sear - a cheap, small device commonly known as a "Glock switch," though it is not manufactured by the company - industry insiders have speculated that Glock's new V Series handguns will have redesigned slides and triggers to prevent the easy installation of such devices. If testing demonstrates that the new design prevents easy conversion of the pistol to a machine gun, it will mark an important milestone in forcing the gun industry to modify its products when they are contributing to gun violence.

Earlier this month, Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 1127, written and sponsored by the Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, making California the first state in the country to prohibit gun dealers from selling pistols that can be easily converted into fully automatic weapons through the simple installation of a "switch." With support from Everytown, New York passed a related bill in 2024 that exposes manufacturers of easily converted pistols to lawsuits. New York, Illinois and Maryland have introduced their own legislation that would prohibit the sale of easily convertible pistols.

Additional information about how "Glock switches" function and their threat to public safety can be found here.

Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund and Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund - along with partners in state and local government - have led the fight to end the proliferation of pistols that can be easily converted into machine guns with switches. Working in the legal, regulatory, and grassroots arenas, they have fought for years to bring about change and accountability:

• March 2024: The City of Chicago, represented by the Chicago Law Department, Everytown Law, and Motley Rice LLC, filed a first-of-its-kind lawsuit alleging that Glock unreasonably endangered Chicagoans by selling semiautomatic pistols that can be easily converted into illegal machine guns in a matter of minutes with a screwdriver and a Glock switch.

• March 2024: Following the Chicago lawsuit, a coalition of attorneys general from twelve states and Washington, D.C. sent a letter to Glock, calling on the company to preserve documents related to this issue.

• June 2024: The New York state legislature passed the first piece of legislation that explicitly requires handgun makers to take steps that ensure their guns cannot be turned into machine guns. The law serves as an update to New York's first-in-the-nation gun industry accountability law, which allows survivors of gun violence and their families to take industry actors to court. Governor Kathy Hochul signed the bill into law in October 2024.

• December 2024: The Offices of New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin and Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison also filed lawsuits against Glock.

• January 2025: The ATF released the final volume of the National Firearms Commerce and Trafficking Assessment, which found that between 2019 and 2023, police recovered 11,088 MCDs, including "switches." In that period, MCD recoveries increased by 784%, and 5,816 were recovered in 2023 alone.

• February 2025: California Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel introduced AB 1127 to prevent the spread of DIY machine guns by preventing future sales of "machinegun-convertible pistols." The legislation, sponsored by Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, passed six committees over the course of the legislative session, with Everytown policy experts Krystal LoPilato and Greg Lickenbrock testifying in various committees. In June, AG Rob Bonta formally announced his support for the legislation and was joined by State Treasurer Fiona Ma in August.

• February 2025: Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown, alongside Everytown Law and Motley Rice LLC, filed a lawsuit against Glock.

• February 2025: Maryland legislators introduced legislation which would prevent any sales of handguns that can be easily converted into machine guns. The bill had a hearing in the state House in April, with Everytown experts Mary Kenah and Greg Lickenbrock testifying.

• April 2025: Illinois legislators introduced legislation which would prevent any sales of handguns that can be easily converted into machine guns.

• August 2025: Glock's motion to dismiss Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison's lawsuit is denied, allowing the case to proceed to discovery.

• September 2025: The City of Chicago, represented by the Chicago Department of Law, Everytown Law, and Motley Rice LLC, secured an important victory in their case against Glock, Glock Ges.m.b.H - the Austrian Glock entity - and two Chicago-area gun stores, when a Cook County Circuit Court denied the defendants' motions to dismiss in their entirety, allowing all of the City's claims to move forward to discovery against both Glock and the gun stores.

• September 2025: Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison filed a lawsuit against Glock Inc., its Austrian parent company, and three Seattle-area Glock-authorized gun retailers - Pantel Tactical, Bull's Eye Indoor Range LLC, and Rainier Arms LLC.

• October 2025: A New Jersey Superior Court judge ruled that the state's lawsuit against Glock could proceed to discovery, rejecting the gunmaker's motion to dismiss.

• October 2025: Governor Gavin Newsom signed AB 1127, making California the first state in the country to prohibit gun dealers from selling pistols that can be easily converted into fully automatic weapons through the simple installation of a "switch."

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