But this power was thwarted in recent days, at least temporarily, when a major U.S. city decided to halt its attack on a legal international business.
The city of Chicago and its anti-gun allies decided to target the venerable Glock gun manufacturer with a frivolous lawsuit designed to cripple or even crush the business.
Plaintiffs inexplicably charged that the gun maker, by design, created its products to be readily able to be modified to function as fully automatic weapons.
They asserted that Glock handguns may be easily converted to illegal weapons through the use of equally illegal “Glock switches” that enable fully automatic gunfire. Chicago police officials reported to have recovered more than 1,100 firearms equipped with such devices in the previous two years before the filing.
Prosecutors used the dubiously titled “Firearms Industry Responsibility Act” to go after Glock.
This law is just one of a steady stream of recent actions by Illinois legislators to stifle the Second Amendment. It is intended to enable litigation against gun makers with wild claims concerning the misuse of their constitutionally protected products by violent criminals.
If the Windy City plaintiffs had their way, Glock would no longer be permitted to conduct business in Chicago or Illinois.
The city trumpeted its efforts to quash Glock’s legal enterprise earlier this year, and plaintiffs moved the case to federal courts, hoping for a swift decision.
However, that was not to be, and officials along with anti-gun Everytown Law quietly dropped the case entirely. The plaintiffs filed the voluntary dismissal without prejudice of their legal action against Glock.
The city left open the possibility of reopening the case sometime in the future.
There was no boisterous press conference on the steps of City Hall with indignant rantings about public safety and the scourge of “gun violence.” The ordinarily brash mayor’s office did not release scathing statements blaming inanimate objects for their abject failure to control murder and crime in the Windy City.
Remember, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s (D) administration trumpeted its filing as a “first-of-its-kind” lawsuit and peppered media outlets with details of the controversial action.
Nothing of the kind was apparent on Monday; there were no press releases or announcements.
Instead, officials shuffled paperwork out of the spotlight and backed away from the arbitrary suit without an explanation.
There remains the possibility that city and state officials could join a much larger lawsuit against Glock brought by several anti-gun jurisdictions. Rumblings toward the manufacturer with various demands have come from multiple states that oppose the Second Amendment.
A coalition of New Jersey, Connecticut, Colorado, Massachusetts, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington rattled their legal sabers earlier this year in the demand issued to Glock.
Pro-Second Amendment forces are watching these developments closely, including former ATF deputy assistant director Pete Forcelli. He recently declared that the agency considered reclassifying Glocks as machine guns.
Forcelli told Cam & Co. that officials believe the weapons are easily converted into fully automatic weapons with the addition of a switch.
This push, however, drew resistance within the ATF and was scuttled — at least for the moment.
There isn’t the slightest possibility that Chicago officials have given up their fight to eradicate the Second Amendment for city residents. Instead, they are likely merely repositioning themselves for another attack.
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