The National Rifle Association, Firearms Policy Coalition, and Second Amendment Foundation filed a lawsuit yesterday challenging Maryland’s ban on Glock and Glock-style handguns.
Earlier in the day, Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed into law SB 334, which amends the Maryland Code of Criminal Law to provide that, “on or after January 1, 2027, a person may not manufacture, sell, offer for sale, purchase, receive, or transfer a machine gun convertible pistol.”
A “machine gun convertible pistol” is defined by the law as “any semiautomatic pistol with a cruciform trigger bar that can be readily converted by hand or by using common household tools into a machine gun by the installation or attachment of a pistol converter as a replacement for the slide’s backplate.” The statute excludes hammer-fired semiautomatic pistols and striker-fired semiautomatic pistols lacking a cruciform trigger bar. In effect, the law bans nearly every Glock and Glock-style pistol on the market.
Our lawsuit argues that Maryland’s Glock ban violates the Second Amendment. In District of Columbia v. Heller, the U.S. Supreme Court held that “common” firearms cannot be banned and specifically struck down a handgun ban as unconstitutional. Maryland’s prohibition on many of the most popular handguns in America blatantly defies the Court’s precedent.
Our case, National Rifle Association of America v. Moore, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.
Please stay tuned to www.nraila.org for future updates on NRA-ILA’s ongoing efforts to defend your constitutional rights, and please visit www.nraila.org/litigation to keep up to date on NRA-ILA’s ongoing litigation efforts.
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