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Gov. Gavin Newsom Signs ‘Glock Ban’ Legislation into Law, Designating Most Popular Pistol a ‘Machinegun’
Breitbart ^ | October 11, 2025 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 10/11/2025 7:44:34 AM PDT by lowbridge

On Friday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed Assembly Bill 1127, aka, “Glock Ban” legislation, into law.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation noted that the “Glock Ban” will take effect July 1, 2026, “[banning] the sale of new Glock-brand pistols and Glock-style clones.”

The “Glock Ban” is Democrat-sponsored legislation, fashioned as a response to the use of “Glock Switches,” which are already illegal. “Glock switches” are federally prohibited plastic pieces that can be affixed to the rear of a Glock slide to make the pistol shoot full auto.

“Glock switches” are wildly popular with gangs and street criminals, therefore California Democrats are banning new sales of one the most popular handguns ever made, the Glock pistol.

On May 12, 2025, Breitbart News reported the language of the “Glock Ban” legislation, noting that Democrats secured the ban on Glocks by labeling them “machinegun-convertible pistol[s].”

Here is the bill text:

A “machinegun-convertible pistol” as 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 specified, and “pistol converter” as any device or instrument that, when installed in or attached to the rear of the slide of a semiautomatic pistol, replaces the backplate and interferes with the trigger mechanism and thereby enables the pistol to shoot automatically more than one shot by a single function of the trigger.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
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1 posted on 10/11/2025 7:44:34 AM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Thats “Machine Pistol” to you.


2 posted on 10/11/2025 7:45:45 AM PDT by Delta 21 (None of us are descendants of fearful men!)
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To: lowbridge

“Can I gets me a Glock Switch ‘round he-yah?”


3 posted on 10/11/2025 7:47:17 AM PDT by pingman ("Step right up! Get your free helicopter ride, courtesy of Pinochet Air!")
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To: lowbridge

Newsome Thinks of everything!
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4 posted on 10/11/2025 7:48:28 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: lowbridge

Gangs and criminals don’t “buy” Glocks.


5 posted on 10/11/2025 7:48:32 AM PDT by P-Marlowe
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To: lowbridge

Grusome Newscum is afraid of Glocks.....LOL.
And next, will be everything else.
Just when one thought they couldn’t despise these commie greaseballs any more, they come out with even more moronic BS.
Without a doubt, Liberalism is a chronic, no-cure, debilitating mental disease. We get to witness it every single day. These lunatics belong in a rubber room in an insane asylum, NOT near the levers of power of anything, especially government.


6 posted on 10/11/2025 7:49:45 AM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: lowbridge

if they can print the ‘switch’, can’t they print the gun too?


7 posted on 10/11/2025 7:49:51 AM PDT by Frank Drebin (And don't ever let me catch you guys in America!)
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To: P-Marlowe

But dey doo like dem switches.


8 posted on 10/11/2025 7:50:26 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: lowbridge

“This bill would expand the above definition of ‘machinegun’ to include any machinegun-convertible pistol equipped with a pistol converter and, thus, prohibit the manufacture, sale, possession, or transportation of a machinegun-convertible pistol equipped with a pistol converter.”


9 posted on 10/11/2025 7:50:45 AM PDT by TexasGator (The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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To: lowbridge

BB Click bait headline


10 posted on 10/11/2025 7:51:51 AM PDT by TexasGator (The 750 hp Florida Gnat)
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To: ImJustAnotherOkie

I’ve had my eye on a Glock Model 45 with a 17 round clip for a while. It’s even more attractive now.


11 posted on 10/11/2025 7:52:07 AM PDT by P-Marlowe
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To: lowbridge

with a chainsaw bayonet?


12 posted on 10/11/2025 7:55:03 AM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: lowbridge

It reminds me that in the USA, there are about 6x mode drug overdose deaths than all murders.
Yet, they are banning Glocks, but crying about drug dealer boats getting blasted in the ocean.


13 posted on 10/11/2025 7:55:17 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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To: TexasGator

“This bill would expand the above definition of ‘machinegun’ to include any machinegun-convertible pistol equipped with a pistol converter and, thus, prohibit the manufacture, sale, possession, or transportation of a machinegun-convertible pistol equipped with a pistol converter.”


Does not sound like a significant change. Such pistol converters are already considered “machineguns” under federal law.

However, California gun laws tend to be byzantine and require careful study.


14 posted on 10/11/2025 7:56:22 AM PDT by marktwain
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15 posted on 10/11/2025 7:57:45 AM PDT by PROCON (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: lowbridge

where can I get a Glock Switch?


16 posted on 10/11/2025 8:00:01 AM PDT by rod5591
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To: lowbridge

Grabb’em Nuisance is an idiot. The boy doesn’t know the difference between a pistol and a machinegun. Good thing the boy never went into the service.


17 posted on 10/11/2025 8:00:42 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't miss out on Schumer's RAW Shutdown Cheese Burgers. Get 'em now!)
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To: TexasGator

Is the bill text “machinegun-convertible pistol” inaccurate?


18 posted on 10/11/2025 8:17:46 AM PDT by Ultra Sonic 007 (There is nothing new under the sun.)
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To: lowbridge

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19 posted on 10/11/2025 8:19:00 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: lowbridge

Bought me a Glock switch. Bolted it on my single shot contender and turned it into a machine gun!


20 posted on 10/11/2025 8:20:42 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment
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