{"id":7551,"date":"2025-10-16T07:55:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/7551\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T07:55:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T07:55:17","slug":"nra-files-lawsuit-against-california-over-ban-on-glock-style-convertible-handgun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/7551\/","title":{"rendered":"NRA files lawsuit against California over ban on Glock-style convertible handgun"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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The National Rifle Association and other gun groups are suing California<\/a> over the state’s ban on Glock-style guns with features known as switches that allow them to be converted to fully automatic weapons.<\/p>\n

The NRA was joined by the Firearms Policy Coalition, Second Amendment Foundation, Poway Weapons & Gear, and two NRA members in challenging the state’s ban.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit argues that California\u2019s ban on Glock-style handguns violates the Second Amendment<\/a> and defies U.S. Supreme Court precedent.<\/p>\n

“A law that bans the sale of\u2014and correspondingly prevents citizens from acquiring\u2014a weapon in common use violates the Second Amendment,” the lawsuit reads.<\/p>\n

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The National Rifle Association and other gun groups are suing California over the state’s ban on Glock-style guns. (Kyle Grillot\/Bloomberg via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

“Semiautomatic handguns with cruciform trigger bars are not different from any other type of semiautomatic handgun in a constitutionally relevant way,” it continues.<\/p>\n

California Gov. Gavin Newsom<\/a>, a Democrat, signed Assembly Bill 1127 last week, prohibiting the sale or transfer of Glock and Glock-style handguns.<\/p>\n

Under the law, licensed firearms dealers “shall not sell, offer for sale, exchange, give, transfer, or deliver any semiautomatic machinegun-convertible pistol,” which is defined as “any semiautomatic pistol with a cruciform trigger bar that can be readily converted by hand or with common household tools \u2026 into a machinegun by the installation or attachment of a pistol converter as a replacement for the slide\u2019s backplate without any additional engineering, machining, or modification of the pistol\u2019s trigger mechanism.”<\/p>\n

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1127 last week. (Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The law excludes hammer-fired semiautomatic pistols and striker-fired semiautomatic pistols without a cruciform trigger bar. The law also does not apply to law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n

The law is set to take effect on July 1, 2026.<\/p>\n

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives reported a 570% increase in converted devices collected by law enforcement agencies between 2017 and 2021, according to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

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The lawsuit argues that California\u2019s ban on Glock-style handguns violates the Second Amendment. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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“You can make a switch with a 3D printer, you going to outlaw those too?” a gun owner told Fox 11, arguing that the ban is just another step in attempting to eventually outlaw all weapons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! The National Rifle Association and other gun groups are suing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,457,7635,721,13,5588,1181],"class_list":["post-7551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-judiciary","tag-law","tag-politics","tag-second-amendment","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}