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New Lawsuit Over California’s Ban on Glock Handguns – Another 2A Clash
Democrat Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel calls the Glock, the ‘DIY Machine Gun Loophole’
By Katy Grimes, October 14, 2025 2:55 am
The California Legislature passed the bill and Governor Gavin Newsom just signed it to BAN any new purchase of all models of Glock handguns, effective July 1, 2026.
What can we say, other than to share Gun Owners of California’s assessment:
GLOCK BAN BILL: All Politics – Zero Safety
Democrats call the Glock a “machinegun-convertible pistol.”
Who led the charge to ban the well-loved Glock?
Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel (D-Encino), who calls the Glock, the “DIY Machine Gun Loophole,” is the author of Assembly Bill 1127, along with Assembly Members Mike Gipson and Buffy Wicks, and Coauthors Assembly Members Rebecca Bauer-Kahan, Marc Berman, Issac Bryan, Damon Connolly, Mark González, Ash Kalra, Liz Ortega, Cottie Petrie-Norris, and Sharon Quirk-Silva.
Assemblyman Gabriel and fellow gun control supporters literally redefined semi-automatic pistols as “convertible.”
In response to California Gov. Gavin Newsom signing new gun control bills into law, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), National Rifle Association, Firearms Policy Coalition, a licensed retailer and two individuals have filed a new lawsuit challenging the ban on the commercial sale of all Glock and Glock platform handguns in California.
Constitutional Attorney Jonathan Turley said Assembly Bill 1127 may now trigger a major challenge under the Second Amendment.
As we reported in July, “The Glock pistol is America’s Gun. It has been rhapsodized by hip-hop artists and coveted by cops and crooks alike,” Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun says. “Created in 1982 by Gaston Glock, the pistol arrived in America at a fortuitous time. Law enforcement agencies had concluded that their agents and officers, armed with standard six-round revolvers, were getting ‘outgunned’ by drug dealers with semi-automatic pistols; they needed a new gun. With its lightweight plastic frame and large-capacity spring-action magazine, the Glock was the gun of the future. You could drop it underwater, toss it from a helicopter, or leave it out in the snow, and it would still fire. It was reliable, accurate, lightweight, and cheaper to produce than Smith and Wesson’s revolver.” (This is a marvelous and historical book).
Back to the SAF lawsuit:
“Just as we’ve done in numerous other cases in the state, we will vigorously defend this unconstitutional infringement on the Second Amendment rights of Californians,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “Lawmakers in the state obviously don’t understand that the Second Amendment is not a second-class right, that’s why we have more than a dozen cases currently working their way through California’s legal system. We look forward to defeating this law in court and restoring the rights of California citizens so they can fully exercise their Second Amendment rights.”
Turley said “The law constitutes one of the most ambitious gun bans since the Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) that gun ownership is an individual right. At the time, Justice Antonin Scalia stressed that the Second Amendment protects all types of firearms ‘in common use at the time’ for ‘lawful purposes like self-defense.’”
“Gun control advocates have been chipping away at this concept by arguing that a variety of popular weapons, such as the AR-15, cannot be considered ‘in common use at the time’ of the ratification.”
U.S. District Court Judge Roger Benitez has warned California’s Governor and Democrat politicians that nibbling around the edges of the Second Amendment is still unconstitutional infringements of the Second Amendment.
Turley continues:
“The California law will now take effect on July 1, 2026, ‘[banning] the sale of new Glock-brand pistols and Glock-style clones.’ In my view, it is unconstitutional under prior Supreme Court precedent.”
“Democrats previously called for banning ‘Glock switches’ that can be affixed to the rear of a Glock slide to make the pistol shoot full auto,” Turley said. “However, such switches are already unlawful. They are now going after the gun itself, confirming the objections of gun rights groups that such early bans were moves to lay the foundation to ban semiautomatic weapons generally.”
From the Second Amendment Foundation Lawsuit:
The Second Amendment protects law-abiding citizens’ right to possess—and, as an incident, to acquire—weapons that are in common use, including handguns. See District of Columbia v. Heller.
Specifically, they note:
Plaintiffs sue to challenge the constitutionality of California Penal Code § 27595(a), which bans the sale or transfer of Glock and Glock-style handguns with cruciform trigger bars. These handguns are in common use; indeed, they are among the most popular firearms in the nation. Yet if § 27595(a) is enforced, Californians will have no practical way to acquire them.
Undeterred, the State is now expanding its ban on “popular handguns designed for self-defense.”
Textually, the right to “keep and bear” weapons includes the right to acquire them. See B&L Prods., Inc. v. Newsom, 104 F.4th 108, 118 (9th Cir. 2024) (“[U]nless the right to acquire firearms receives some Second Amendment protection, the right to keep and bear firearms would be meaningless.”).
As Heller has made clear, the only historical justification that could justify banning the possession of a firearm is that the arm is both “dangerous and unusual.”
“…in Heller, the Supreme Court held that the Second Amendment “protects the possession and use of weapons that are ‘in common use at the time.’”
A law that bans the sale of—and correspondingly prevents citizens from acquiring—a weapon in common use violates the Second Amendment.
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A California native and Navy mom, Katy lives in Sacramento, CA.
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Sadly, the Dem Marcists know that even if the law is overturned at any level, history has shown their law will be granted a stay as it makes its way to US Supreme Court, thus getting a de facto win for several years at a minimum (ammo background checks, high cap magazines, etc). No on 50 – and vote em out!
Another “law” that will be signed, while exempting most of the legislators, law enforcement, and certain other classes of Californians (a caste system?), it also makes current Glock holders or owners criminals through no actions violating any laws except commerce.
If you banned a certain breakfast cereal or cigarettes, the smugglers would start tomorrow.
I’m certain all the “illegal” Glocks will disappear from Oakland overnight.
There are no mentions of Glocks, machine guns or any other category of weapons in the 2nd.
Once again Hair-gel Hitler Newsom and the criminal Democrat thug mafia in the legislature trying to ban firearms in violation of the 2nd Amendment. How wouldn’t be surprised if these Democrat Marxist fascist thugs won’t try to break away from the rest of the United States in the near future and establish their authoritarian, totalitarian West Coast Alliance dictatorship with the Democrat controlled dystopian states of Oregon and Washington?
Meanwhile, Hair-gel Hitler Newsom’s official “@GovPressOffice” account has been posting increasingly vicious attacks on President Trump which crossed the line today by mocking the release of Israeli hostages. In a post on X, Newsom quoted a White House post of a photograph of Trump with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and responded by adding a photograph from the movie Dumb and Dumber which was later deleted. Hair-gel Hitler Newsom being a dyslexic dimwit should know all about being dumb?
Democrat Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel who Assembly Bill 1127 and who laughably called the Glock, the “DIY Machine Gun Loophole,” is also Co-Chair of the Democrat Legislative Jewish Caucus. He has done absolutely NOTHING to stop the attacks against Jews and rampant antisemitism on California’s publicly funded educational institutions. In fact Gabriel and creepy Democrat Sen. Scott Wiener released a statement backing Gov. Gavin “Hair-gel Hitler” Newsom in the billion-dollar battle over UCLA’s funding tied to the Trump administration’s crackdown on antisemitism at UCLA. Instead of addressing rampant antisemitism, Democrat Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel is a radical leftist wants to ban firearms for law abiding Californians while defunding and attacking law enforcement.
Democrat Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel appears to one of those secular Jews who never attends a synagogue but who hides behind Judaism when they’re fundraising or who plays a victim if anyone dares to point out their radical far-left agenda?
Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun is a “marvelous and historical book,” but you don’t bother to give the name of its author? You also omitted his name in the article you published in July.
The book is by Paul M. Barrett.