Gun rights YouTuber Liberty Doll says Glock is still facing a growing wave of state-level bans and lawsuits, even after the company reportedly moved toward new designs meant to make its pistols harder to modify with illegal conversion devices.
In a recent video, Liberty Doll said Maryland and Connecticut are now pushing forward with bills aimed at what lawmakers call “machine gun convertible pistols.” In her view, that language may sound broad, but the real target is clear.
“Glock can’t seem to catch a break these days,” Liberty Doll said, arguing that the company has become “the big bad gun control boogeyman at the moment.”
Her main criticism is that these proposals focus on firearms owned by lawful buyers, while the devices at the center of the debate, often called Glock switches, are already illegal.
Glock Switches And The New Political Target
Liberty Doll opened by saying Glock had announced changes to older designs, allegedly to make them harder to modify with conversion switches.
Those switches can turn a semi-automatic pistol into a weapon capable of automatic fire, and Liberty Doll noted that they are already illegal federally and in most, if not all, states.
That is where her frustration begins.
“Like most gun control,” she said, “going after Glock is only hurting the people who actually follow the laws rather than the criminals who don’t give a crap.”
She also argued that crimes committed with these switches remain low compared with overall crime, though lawmakers in several states are now building bills around the issue.
In her telling, this is part of a familiar pattern. A criminal misuse problem emerges, lawmakers say they are targeting that problem, and the final bill ends up restricting what law-abiding gun owners can buy.
Whether someone agrees with her or not, that is the political tension at the center of these Glock bills. The state wants to stop illegal conversions, while gun rights advocates say the laws are written broadly enough to punish people who never modified anything.
Maryland Bill Heads Toward The Governor
Liberty Doll first turned to Maryland, where she said SB0334 and its companion bill HB0577 mirror California’s ban on so-called machine gun convertible pistols.
She said the bill does not specifically name Glock, but it focuses on pistols with a cruciform trigger bar, which is strongly associated with Glock-style designs. That is why she and others refer to these proposals as “Glock bans,” even if the brand name is not written into the law.
According to Liberty Doll, the Maryland measure would ban the manufacture, sale, offer for sale, purchase, receipt, or transfer of the covered firearms. It would also require the state to publish a list of banned guns.
She said the Senate version has an effective date of January 1, 2027, while the House version would begin earlier, in October.
The law would define a machine gun convertible pistol as one that can be made to rapid fire using common household tools and a drop-in device, as long as it has the cruciform trigger bar. Liberty Doll stressed that hammer-fired pistols and straight striker-fired designs without that Glock-style trigger setup would not fall under the same ban.
That is one reason she sees the legislation as aimed at Glock in practice, even without naming Glock directly.
Current Owners May Be Safe For Now
Liberty Doll said the Maryland bill does not currently force existing Glock owners to give up their firearms.
But she was not comforted by that.
She pointed to Rhode Island, where she said lawmakers previously passed a ban on so-called assault weapons and later began looking at a possession ban that would force current owners to sell, destroy, or surrender firearms if it passed.
“So allowing current owners to keep theirs right now doesn’t really mean much,” Liberty Doll said.
She also quoted Maryland Delegate Nicole Williams, a Prince George’s County Democrat and sponsor of the bill, who said during debate that current owners could keep their guns.
“If you currently own one, you can keep it,” Williams said, according to Liberty Doll. “No one is taking your gun away from you.”
Williams also said that if Glock modifies its design, buyers could purchase the newly designed gun.
Liberty Doll mocked that reassurance, comparing it to the old political promise, “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor,” and argued that the phrase “no one is coming for your guns” often comes right before new restrictions arrive.
That commentary may be sharp, but the concern is easy to understand. Gun owners often judge today’s law not only by what it does now, but by what it may make easier tomorrow.
Police Exemptions Draw More Criticism
Liberty Doll also pointed out that law enforcement would be exempt under the Maryland proposal.
“Law enforcement is of course exempt, as per usual,” she said.
Her criticism was that the state can declare a firearm too dangerous for the public while still allowing police to keep buying and carrying it.
That argument comes up often in gun debates because it raises a basic fairness question: if a firearm is considered dangerous because of its design, why is it still acceptable for government employees to use it?
Supporters of exemptions usually argue that police have training and job-related needs. Critics like Liberty Doll see it differently. To them, it looks like one set of rules for the state and another for ordinary citizens.
She also said Maryland and Baltimore sued Glock last year, with that lawsuit still pending in Baltimore City Circuit Court. Given that broader legal pressure, Liberty Doll said she had “zero reason” to believe the governor would not sign the bill.
She added that gun rights groups and the National Shooting Sports Foundation have vowed to sue.
Connecticut Pushes Its Own Glock Ban
Liberty Doll then moved to Connecticut, where she said the state House of Representatives passed another bill that she expects will reach the governor.
She noted that the governor himself has supported the ban, and she said WFSB out of Hartford did not “sugarcoat” the issue, calling it a Glock ban in its coverage.
The Connecticut bill, according to Liberty Doll, would add convertible pistols to the legal definition of machine gun. It uses similar language to other proposals, defining a convertible pistol as a semi-automatic pistol with a cruciform trigger bar that can be readily altered by hand or with common household tools to accept a pistol converter.
She read through the bill language, including the definition of common household tools. That list included items such as a knife, screwdriver, wrench, hacksaw, crowbar, electric drill, rotary tool, hammer, chisel, file, or pliers.
Liberty Doll joked about the image of someone sitting with a compact Glock and a crowbar, calling it “comedy gold.”
That moment was funny, but it also showed one of her bigger complaints: she believes the legal wording is broad, awkward, and written by people who may not fully understand how the firearms work in real life.
Constitutional Challenges Are Expected
Liberty Doll said the Connecticut bill also includes force reset triggers, even though federal court proceedings have found they are not machine guns. She also said the bill bans unfinished frames and receivers.
As in Maryland, she said current owners would supposedly be allowed to keep covered firearms, though she again questioned how long that would last.
The bill passed the Connecticut House 86 to 64, with 15 Democrats voting against it. Liberty Doll said that margin was smaller than she expected.
She also mentioned criticism that the bill is unconstitutional. In response, she said supporter Representative Bob Godfrey pointed to a Connecticut Supreme Court ruling on an earlier military-style assault weapons ban, saying the legislature has the power to define which firearms count as defensive weapons under the Second Amendment.
Godfrey argued, according to Liberty Doll, that this means the new bill is constitutional.
Liberty Doll was not convinced. She said legal challenges are almost certain if the bill becomes law, though it remains to be seen how far they will get.
A Fight That Is Still Growing
Liberty Doll’s broader message was that the Glock fight is not ending with one state.
California has already acted, Maryland is moving forward, Connecticut is advancing its own bill, and other places such as New York have also been part of the larger discussion. Lawsuits and redesigns have not ended the pressure.
To Liberty Doll, that proves the issue was never only about illegal switches. She sees it as another front in the larger gun control fight, where one technical concern becomes the opening for wider restrictions.
The most interesting part of this debate is how narrow and broad it feels at the same time.
On paper, lawmakers are talking about a specific mechanical concern: pistols that can allegedly be converted more easily with illegal devices. But in practice, the fight reaches into bigger questions about lawful ownership, police exemptions, future confiscation fears, and how much power states should have to define common firearms out of the civilian market.
Liberty Doll ended by telling viewers that, if these bills pass, lawsuits will follow.
For Glock owners and gun rights supporters, her warning was clear: even after design changes, “it’s not over yet.”
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