California Bill Would Ban One Of Nation’s Most Popular Handguns

California lawmakers will person a proceeding Wednesday, May 7, connected a precocious introduced a measure that would prohibition definite instrumentality gun-convertible pistols successful nan state. While weapon authorities advocates are calling nan authorities nan “Glock prohibition bill” because Glock manufactures celebrated pistols that tin beryllium converted into an automatic limb utilizing an attachment, weapon power advocates are lauding nan move arsenic a basal measurement to forestall wide shootings.

California’s Assembly Bill 1127, introduced by Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, would prohibit a licensed firearms seller from dealing successful immoderate semiautomatic pistol that is easy “converted by manus aliases pinch communal family tools” into a instrumentality gun.

After being amended, nan measure awaits different proceeding successful nan Assembly Appropriations Committee scheduled for Wednesday.

Gabriel introduced nan measure 3 years aft six group were killed and different 12 were wounded during a Sacramento shooting successful which much than 100 rounds were fired from Glocks equipped pinch move technology.

How does a Glock move work?

Glock move exertion turns semi-automatic pistols into afloat automatic firearms. It’s already against national rule to ain a instrumentality weapon without anterior support from, and registration with, nan Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

However, moreover pinch national permission, California bans fully-automatic firearms. California rule besides states that nan waste of pistol switches is illegal. The measure does not use to rule enforcement officers, subject members aliases existent owners of nan weapons.

Support from weapon power groups

In a property release, weapon power defense group Everytown for Gun Safety lauded nan legislation, saying that Glock has agelong been alert that its firearms tin beryllium turned into forbidden instrumentality guns “with conscionable a screwdriver and a $25 switch,” but “refused” to reside nan issue.

“With this caller measure,” Everytown for Gun Safety writes, “California lawmakers are telling Glock and its copycats, loudly and clearly, that if they neglect to return reasonable steps to hole this problem to forestall these forbidden conversions, they will beryllium forced to extremity trading their firearms successful California.”

Opposition from weapon authorities advocates

Meanwhile, nan National Association for Gun Rights opposes nan measure, and accused California of “pushing quickly towards a full prohibition of Glock pistols.”

“The astir celebrated firearm successful nan country. If you deliberation location is simply a statement they will not cross, deliberation again,” nan group posted connected X.

Gun Owners of California President Sam Paredes told KXTV that should nan measure go law, weapon authorities groups will instantly record ineligible challenges.

Glock has not yet responded to nan projected legislation.