Rumblings out of California about a potential sweeping ban of some of the most popular and prominent handguns in the state are coming to fruition.
A vote is expected this week in the Senate Appropriations Committee on whether to advance AB 1127 to the floor, and there is no reason to believe that it will not pass.
It aims to banish Glock pistols from the state over an add-on that is already illegal. Many criminals install an inexpensive aftermarket device commonly known as the “Glock switch” to convert the pistols to fully automatic operation.
There’s little reason to believe that California’s latest gun control overreach won’t sail through the legislature
California’s anti-gunners rarely see any infringement on the right to keep and bear arms as too much, and AB 1127 is likely to breeze out of committee.
Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel (D) trotted out a claim that the state’s notoriously overbearing gun control regime saved some 20,000 lives in the past decade.
Proof, of course, was sorely lacking. That did not stop the lawmaker from pushing ahead with the proposed ban.
Anti-gunners predictably target law-abiding citizens and avoid those responsible for violent crime
Gabriel had no qualms about prohibiting a constitutionally protected device over the actions of violent criminals.
The lawmaker complained that switches may be installed with only a screwdriver. “This tiny device, this switch, can turn something that is a pistol into a deadly, lethal machine gun capable of firing hundreds of rounds in a matter of mere minutes.”
Never mind that state and federal law already prohibit these devices and that the most prudent course would be to target the actual criminals who use them. For anti-gunners, there is no responsibility on the part of the guilty party, but rather the inanimate object they misused.
One prominent organization, Gun Owners of California, is fighting this travesty.
The Second Amendment advocacy group told ABC10 that Glock and others in the industry took steps to address the switch issue with newer models. Ironically, the state of California’s ridiculous roster of permitted weapons does not allow the latest and safest weapons to be sold.
This brings the issue back to the recent news that California officials now believe that microstamping is a workable technology to mandate for firearms. Despite experts’ cautioning that no such system has proven reliable, lawmakers continue to pursue the requirement.
California’s handgun roster includes some older Glock models and other similar firearms that were grandfathered in.
But the updated versions are not approved for sale because they do not comply with the microstamping mandate—something that no commercially available weapon currently does.
Besides removing a popular and legal product from shop displays, how would a statewide ban on Glock firearms affect the industry?
Justin Davis owns Gun Worx in Sacramento, and he is a strong proponent of the value of Glock and Glock-style pistols.
“They’re so reliable,” Davis declared. “They will go bang. You can’t clean them, you can run any ammo through them, and they will always, always, go bang. And I don’t think I can say that about any other gun.”
But Gun Worx is only a small shop compared to the major box chains, and it may not survive a California Glock ban. Davis estimated that 75-80% of his handgun sales are Glocks, and he further noted that the proposed law would not affect the people it was intended to.
“They’re banning them from people that don’t break the law,” Davis observed. “Criminals are criminals because they break the law, and they don’t care what Glock ban or this gun’s banned, they don’t care. That’s why they’re criminals.”
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