Today, the National Rifle Association—along with Firearms Policy Coalition, Second Amendment Foundation, Poway Weapons & Gear, and an NRA member—filed a lawsuit challenging California’s Glock ban.
Last Friday, Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law Assembly Bill 1127, which prohibits the sale or transfer of Glock and Glock-style handguns. Specifically, the law, codified at California Penal Code § 27595(a) and scheduled to take effect on July 1, 2026, provides that licensed firearms dealers “shall not sell, offer for sale, exchange, give, transfer, or deliver any semiautomatic machinegun-convertible pistol.”
A “semiautomatic machine-gun convertible pistol” is defined as “any semiautomatic pistol with a cruciform trigger bar that can be readily converted by hand or with common household tools … into a machinegun by the installation or attachment of a pistol converter as a replacement for the slide’s backplate without any additional engineering, machining, or modification of the pistol’s trigger mechanism.” The law excludes, however, hammer-fired semiautomatic pistols and striker-fired semiautomatic pistols lacking a cruciform trigger bar. In effect, therefore, the ban applies to Glock-manufactured semiautomatic handguns and similar handguns built on a Glock platform.
Our lawsuit argues that California’s ban on Glock-style handguns violates the Second Amendment. The U.S. Supreme Court has held that “common” arms cannot be banned, and moreover, that handguns cannot be banned. California’s ban on many of the most popular handguns in America blatantly defies the Court’s precedent.
Our case, Jaymes v. Bonta, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.
Please stay tuned to www.nraila.org for future updates on NRA-ILA’s ongoing efforts to defend your constitutional rights, and please visit www.nraila.org/litigation to keep up to date on NRA-ILA’s ongoing litigation efforts.
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