Attorney General Platkin Sues Glock for Design and Sale of Guns Switchable to Machine Gun Configuration

Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced a lawsuit against Glock, Inc. and Glock Ges.m.b.H. (together, “Glock”) seeking relief for multiple violations of the State’s firearms industry public safety law through the knowing manufacture, sale, and distribution of its namesake pistols, which can easily be configured to fire automatically as illegal machine guns, using an inexpensive device commonly known as a “Glock switch.”

AG Platkin Steps Up Efforts to Combat Gun Violence Through Coalition with Other States

TRENTON – Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced today that 16 Attorneys General have formed a multistate coalition to hold irresponsible firearms industry members accountable for their devastating impact on gun violence.

AG Platkin Holds Strategy Meeting in Newark with Law Enforcement Leaders on Use of New Burglary Laws and Announces Statewide Burglary Task Force to Curtail Residential Burglaries and Home Invasions

Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin held a meeting in Newark with law enforcement leaders from across the state to discuss how officers and prosecutors can best use the newly enacted laws that heighten criminal penalties for residential burglaries.

AG Platkin, Division of Consumer Affairs Reach Settlement with Dick’s Sporting Goods Resolving Allegations that Retail Chain Unlawfully Sold Large Capacity Magazines into New Jersey

For Immediate Release: November 14, 2024 Office of the Attorney General- Matthew J. Platkin, Attorney GeneralDivision of Consumer Affairs- Cari Fais, Director For Further Information: Media Inquiries-Lisa CoryellOAGpress@njoag.gov Consent Order TRENTON – Attorney...

AG Platkin Acts Against Gun Stores for Repeated Unlawful Sales to Unverified Buyers

Butch’s Gun World and Point Blank Guns & Ammo Sold 1,000-round Cases of AR-15 Ammunition Without Checking Buyer Credentials.

AG Platkin, AG Campbell Lead States in Defending Assault Weapons Law in Cook County, Illinois

New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell led a multistate amicus brief filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in support of Cook County, Illinois, which is continuing to defend its assault weapons ban from a Second Amendment challenge.

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