BELLEVUE, Wash. — Oct. 13, 2025 — In response to California Gov. Gavin Newsom signing new gun control bills into law, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have filed a new lawsuit challenging the ban on the commercial sale of all Glock and Glock platform handguns in California.
Specifically, the lawsuit challenges AB 1127, which Newsom signed into law on Friday. The new law bans the sale of “…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 Glock ban takes effect on July 1, 2026.
“Prior to AB 1127, Gen 3 Glock, and similar handguns built on the Glock platform, were available for commercial sale because they were grandfathered onto California’s handgun roster,” said SAF Director of Legal Operations Bill Sack. “California is already subject to an injunction because the California Handgun Roster unconstitutionally bans handguns in common use for lawful purposes. Rather than heed the demands of the Second Amendment and their own courts, California lawmakers have responded by doubling down and expanding their handgun ban. We’ll see them in court.”
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.”
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