Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund Calls on Ruger to Immediately Cease the Manufacture and Sale of RXM Pistol, Which Evidence Suggests Can Be Easily Converted Into an Illegal Machine Gun 

Open Letter to Ruger Comes Just Days After Reports that Glock Will Discontinue Existing Product Line, Following Years of Pressure from Everytown to Modify Its Pistols to Not Accept “Glock Switches” 

NEW YORK – Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund today called on American firearm manufacturing giant Sturm, Ruger & Co. to immediately pull its RXM pistol from the market, unless and until it changes the pistol’s design, due to its apparent ability to be easily modified into a machine gun that fires fully automatically with the insertion of a readily available—but illegal—machine gun conversion device, in a letter to the company’s general counsel.

The letter reads: 

In recent days, reports have indicated that Glock will soon be pulling its easily modifiable pistols from the market. A second company, Shadow Systems, is reportedly doing the same. This will leave Ruger as the largest U.S. manufacturer of a pistol that appears to be easily convertible into an illegal machine gun, and risks Ruger’s RXM becoming the new crime gun of choice across the country.  

“The leaders at Ruger have a choice to make: They can be a part of the solution by pulling the RXM pistol from the market, or risk having their pistol become the new weapon of choice for criminals nationwide seeking to modify pistols into illegal machine guns,” said Eric Tirschwell, head of litigation for Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund. 

Ruger claims to be a “model of corporate and community responsibility.” But according to today’s letter, “Ruger launched its new pistol, the RXM, as a collaboration between Ruger and Magpul Industries on December 11, 2024. Ruger and Magpul built the RXM to mimic the Glock deliberately, and to accept virtually all Glock aftermarket accessories. Despite the grave public safety concerns of this design—concerns dating back to as early as 2017 and accelerating after 2021—Ruger chose to copy Glock’s easily accessible cruciform trigger bar. Assuming that public reports are accurate, the RXM is thus likewise particularly susceptible to easy illegal modification.” As the letter notes: “Ample evidence online shows that consumers have in fact been able to convert the Ruger RXM to a machine gun by inserting a conversion device. That evidence includes videos of people firing the RXM with auto sears.”

Read Everytown’s full letter making the public safety case for removing the RXM pistol from market here. Interviews available upon request, at [email protected].