The lawsuit against Glock really boils down to one thing: People figured out how to turn Glocks into full-autos and Glock isn't tripping over itself to dismantle a proven design, introducing potential problems, just to prevent people from doing something the law is already meant to prevent.

Let's understand that here and now.

Yes, there's been some upheaval in the lawsuit, but it's still a thing, apparently. It shouldn't be, but it is.

And it seems the Second Amendment Foundation's Alan Gottlieb has thoughts on the absolute stupidity of it.

Second Amendment Foundation’s Alan Gottlieb said the city’s lawsuit is misguided and could be unconstitutional.

“If somebody alters the Glock and makes it an illegal gun, they should be going after the criminal who did it. And of course, Chicago has a great track record of not prosecuting criminals who misuse firearms,” Gottlieb told The Center Square Wednesday. “And that’s where the problem lies. And going after the industry is only being done because they want to put gun manufacturers out of business.”

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The city also alleged the switches can make Glock handguns fire at a rate of 1,200 rounds a minute.

Gottlieb said that’s impossible because there are no 1,200 round magazines for handguns.

“If you had to stop after firing 10 rounds and reload a magazine, there’s no way in a minute you can fire 1,200 rounds,” he said. “Again, they use this hyperbole to … go after people and make these charges in their complaints but they’re absurd.”

I mean, he's not wrong. While the rate of fire might be "clocked" at 1,200 rounds a minute, it's irrelevant since it can't actually fire that many. Most people don't really understand what "rate of fire" means, so they hear something like that and get terrified. No one is throwing that many rounds down range in a minute. No one at all.

And, of course, Gottlieb is right about where Chicago should be focusing its attention.

Glock didn't make the full-auto switches. They're not marketing them. They're not involved in the process in the least. They make the Glock 18, which is full-auto, but it's not available for your average citizen in the United States. As such, it's not their responsibility.

Think about it for a moment. This is akin to going after a car company for making a vehicle that's capable of going faster than 75 miles per hour. In doing so, they're enabling street racing and just general speeding, which contributes to a lot of deaths each and every year.

Where that analogy falls down, though, isn't that Glocks are so dangerous. Oh no, it's in the fact that cars come from the factory able to go faster than that. Glocks are fully within what is legal when you buy one. You have to seek out illegal parts that Glock doesn't make or provide, all in order to convert a gun illegally.

Yes, I used illegal twice in one sentence just to point out how the laws on the books are supposed to prevent this sort of thing and Glock isn't responsible for them doing so.

The Glock handgun is one of the most reliable firearms on the planet. They're nothing fancy. They just work. As such, there's a reason so many police departments use them. 

A lawsuit like this either seeks to drive Glock out of business--which Gottlieb points out will hurt law enforcement--or force a redesign of their guns so switches can't be applied. I'd argue that any redesign would potentially impact that reliability. That's a bad thing in general, but will also potentially hurt law enforcement.

Then again, this is really nothing more than Chicago officials trying to foist the blame for their own failures on people who bear no responsibility for them in the least.