Maryland just dropped a bomb on gun owners, and if this spreads, it could destroy our business.
The state's Democrat legislature just passed a bill banning Glocks — you know, one of the most popular handguns in the country. They're now sending it to Governor Wes Moore to sign into law. After January 2027, transferring any pistol with a "cruciform trigger bar" will be criminal. That means your standard Gen 1 through Gen 5 Glocks and anything made by companies that copy their design. California already did this, and now Maryland is following suit.
The sponsor, Delegate Nicole Williams, claims this is about "machine gun convertible pistols" because of those Glock switches people have been importing from China. Here's the thing though — those switches are ALREADY illegal at the federal level thanks to the 1986 Hughes Amendment. Maryland already banned them state-level. And Glock even redesigned their pistols to make them harder to convert. But apparently that's not enough for these politicians.
The worst part? Cops and military get an exception. So the people who write the laws get to keep the guns while the rest of us don't. That's not public safety — that's privilege.
This is going to hurt gun shops big time. One Maryland dealer told me Glocks account for 30-40% of all their sales. We're talking about wiping out a huge chunk of inventory that law-abiding customers actually want to buy. Meanwhile, the bad guys won't care about the law — they never do.
Now here's the kicker: this law is almost certainly going to get struck down in court. The Supreme Court ruled in Heller that weapons "in common use" can't be banned, and Glocks are everywhere. In Bruen, the Court said states need historical analogues from the founding era to justify gun laws. Good luck finding that for banning a specific trigger design.
But in the meantime, we're stuck dealing with the chaos. If this becomes a trend and spreads to more states, it won't just be Maryland gun shops hurting — it could be all of us.