Overview

• A six-person jury reached the decision after roughly 90 minutes, concluding Hanover Armory’s ghost gun sales were a substantial factor in a public nuisance.
• Baltimore will place the award in an abatement fund managed by the city for three community violence intervention groups.
• City officials described the $62 million sum as the largest verdict against a gun dealer in American history.
• Trial evidence cited a nearly 1,500% rise in ghost gun recoveries from 2019 to 2022 in Baltimore, with links to shootings, homicides and youth-involved crimes.
• Hanover Armory denies wrongdoing; Polymer80 settled with Baltimore for $1.2 million in 2024 and later closed, and a 2025 Supreme Court ruling classified ghost gun kits as firearms.