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New one California A law banning Glock-style pistols capable of attaching illegal machine gun conversion devices is being challenged in court NRAwho accuse the state of “disarming law-abiding citizens” and violating second Amendment,
Assembly Bill No. 1127 It was introduced by Democratic Assembly member Jesse Gabriel in July and eventually signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom Last week.
It prohibits the sale of semi-automatic pistols that feature a “cruciform trigger bar”, informally known as a “switch”, which allows the weapon to be easily converted to a more lethal, faster-fire model.
“Newsom and his cabal of progressive politicians in California are continuing their campaign against constitutional rights,” John Comerford, executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action, said in a statement.
“They are attempting to violate historic Supreme Court decisions and disarm law-abiding citizens by banning some of the most commonly owned handguns in America,” he said.
In July, Gabriel told the California Senate Public Safety Committee, “Automatic weapons are exceptionally lethal and capable of firing hundreds of rounds per minute; they are illegal in California.”
“Unfortunately, some semi-automatic firearms contain a dangerous design element that allows them to be converted into automatic weapons through the attachment of an easy-to-use device called a switch.”
But their law is now being challenged in a lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California, which lists the NRA, the Firearms Policy Coalition and the Second Amendment Foundation among the plaintiffs.
The lawsuit claims that the new law effectively “bans the sale of – and accordingly prevents citizens from acquiring – a weapon in common use in violation of the Second Amendment.”
They argue, “Semiautomatic handguns with cruciform trigger bars are no different from any other type of semiautomatic handgun in a constitutionally relevant way.” “The Supreme Court has previously held that handguns are in common use and cannot be banned.”
The plaintiffs insist that the only justification for banning the sale of a given gun is that it is “dangerous and unusual” and that this criterion does not apply to semi-automatic pistols, which “are in common use for unquestionably lawful purposes” and “are among the most popular handguns in the country.”
Machine gun conversion switches are illegal in the United States, but they usually come into the country after being manufactured overseas. They can be 3D printed at home, and instructions for their installation are widely available online, according to Los Angeles Times,
The switches have been found on weapons used in several mass shootings in recent years, notably an attack in Sacramento in 2022 that killed six people and injured several others.
According to the latest data available from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a 570 percent increase in the number of conversion devices Raised by US police departments between 2017 and 2021.