NRA sues California over ban on Glock-style firearms: 'Violates the Second Amendment'

The NRA and other gun groups are suing California over the state's ban on Glock-style guns with features that allow them to be converted to fully automatic weapons.

The National Rifle Association and other gun groups are suing California over the state's ban on Glock-style guns. (Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"Semiautomatic handguns with cruciform trigger bars are not different from any other type of semiautomatic handgun in a constitutionally relevant way," it continues.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed Assembly Bill 1127 last week, prohibiting the sale or transfer of Glock and Glock-style handguns.

Under the law, licensed firearms dealers "shall not sell, offer for sale, exchange, give, transfer, or deliver any semiautomatic machinegun-convertible pistol," which is defined 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 a replacement for the slide’s backplate without any additional engineering, machining, or modification of the pistol’s trigger mechanism."

The lawsuit argues that California’s ban on Glock-style handguns violates the Second Amendment. (Getty Images)

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"You can make a switch with a 3D printer, you going to outlaw those too?" a gun owner told Fox 11, arguing that the ban is just another step in attempting to eventually outlaw all weapons.

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