NRA announces legal challenge to California’s ban on Glock pistols

According to a statement from the National Rifle Association, last week, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 1127, an extreme gun control bill that bans Glock and Glock platform pistols, into law.

In response to the signing, the National Rifle Association has announced it has filed a lawsuit ​challenging this unconstitutional law in federal court and released the following statement: “Our message to Governor Newsom is simple: We will see you in court,” said John Commerford, Executive Director of NRA-ILA. “Gavin Newsom and his gang of progressive politicians in California are continuing their crusade against constitutional rights. Once again, they are attempting to violate landmark Supreme Court decisions and disarm law-abiding citizens by banning some of the most commonly owned handguns in America. This flagrant violation of rights cannot, and will not, go unchecked.”

Background
The case is named Jaymes v. Bonta and was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.

California’s latest gun control law violates clear Supreme Court precedent.

In District of Columbia v. Heller, SCOTUS held that the government cannot ban “common” arms, including handguns.

Assembly Bill 1127 prohibits firearms dealers from selling certain semi-automatic pistols.

While the stated intent is to restrict individuals from converting pistols into automatic “machine guns,” federal and state law already prohibit devices that convert semi-automatic firearms to fire automatically. AB 1127 is just another attempt to villainize certain categories of firearms to impose further gun bans in California.

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