The Glock family of semiautomatic handguns is the most popular handgun in America - and it's not especially close.
It's popular in all the circles you'd expect - police, the millitary, self-defense shooters; they even have a particularly famous fan:
“I have a Glock, and I've had it for quite some time,” says VP Harris, addressing the surprise some people felt upon learning she’s a gun owner. “My background is in law enforcement. And so there you go.” https://t.co/3WvS0NXkSP pic.twitter.com/dGDqEy17IL
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 8, 2024
But that's over - for now, at least - in California; Governor Newsom signed a bill today banning sales of new Glocks in the state:
At issue, the new Glock design allows the gun to be easily modified with a Lego-sized piece of plastic known as a "Glock Switch" that can be 3-D printed to turn it into a fully automatic weapon.
Glock "switches" are already illegal, but Democratic lawmakers in California went one step further by passing a bill along party lines that outlaws the sale of any new gun with a Glock-like design. The new law does not ban possession of Glocks, nor does it ban reselling used Glocks in California.
Southern California Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, who introduced Assembly Bill 1127, said he hopes this legislation forces Glock to change its design so "switches" no longer work.
Now, if you follow the subject, you likely already know the facts; the modification, which turns a garden-variety high-quality Glock into an uncontrollable machine gun sprays an entire magazine over all of Samuel Colt's creation with one squeeze of the trigger, is effected using a part that is generally manufactured by Central American cartels and smuggled into the US; possessing the part, let alone the modified gun, without the proper, expensive paperwork is already a federal-level felony.
Unexpectedly, being completely illegal didn't stop them from becoming must-have accessories for the fashion-foreward gang-banger over the past few years; Joe Biden's open border made them a bit of a buyer's market.
Of course, the facts and history don't matter nearly as much to Gov. Newsom as the emotional response to be wrung out of banning machine guns!
But some of the facts are mighty inconvenient for Newsom and his ban:
Big news here, or rather, old news that no one seems to have noticed until a follower of mine did. The Glock sales ban that is about to become law in California (AB 1127) was prompted by a 2022 mass shooting in Sacramento that California politicians caused through their own… pic.twitter.com/SfoTj4nZaM
— Kostas Moros (@MorosKostas) September 16, 2025
Of course it traces back to a "progressive" prosecutor:
They let a violent criminal out of prison SIX YEARS early, due to Prop 57. That criminal, a prohibited person, then illegally modified a Glock he could not legally possess and used it to murder his rivals in a gang-related shooting. So now, law-abiding gun owners are going to be prevented from purchasing America’s most popular handgun.
There seems to be a switch that makes Soros-funded prosecutors and blue-state politicians fire off stupid legal decisions on full-automatic:
The shooting Everytown cites, which also was the impetus for this Glock ban bill, was committed by a violent domestic abuser who got let out of prison early due to a law Newsom supports. https://t.co/yBdGuahapb pic.twitter.com/kwNpzaSnd9
— Kostas Moros (@MorosKostas) October 10, 2025
The law doesn't stand a chance in court, of course; the Supreme Court ruled in the Bruen case that the Second Amendment protects firearms "in common use" - and when you look up "Handguns in Common Use" in the dictionary (kids, ask your parents), there's a picture of a Glock.
The paperwork to take the ban to court was filed faster than you can empty a Glock magazine with a converstion kit attached:
The new lawsuit filed today in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California is titled Jaymes v. Bonta. SAF is joined in the case by the National Rifle Association, Firearms Policy Coalition, a licensed retailer and two individuals. “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.”
As for me? I'm a SIG guy, or was before all my firearms fell in the lake.
But we all have to stick together on this.
