Last month I taught a MAG-40 class in the San Diego area with one of my 9mm Glock 26 subcompact pistols. This month Governor Newsom signed into law a bill banning the sale of any new Glock pistols since they can be converted to fully automatic fire with the infamous Glock Switch.
It’s a new level of anti-gun stupidity.
I visit California often. I have family there, have taught classes there, and have done self-defense shooting trials there. I love the climate. I know many wonderful people there. But the laws and the political correctness are such that I am glad I do not live there.
Did no one tell the Governor and the legislators that clever, mechanically-oriented criminals can make their own illegal fully automatic weapons? When I was teaching in Great Britain in the last century, I learned from authorities that the IRA was manufacturing their own copies of the STEN submachine gun. During the Dillinger epoch, he and Baby Face Nelson owned Colt 1911s that had been turned into machine pistols by a “gunsmith to the outlaws” named Hyman Lebman.
Illegal possession of fully automatic weapons carries a heavy Federal penalty already, as does the possession of any firearm by a convicted felon. Giving law-breakers just another law to break is laughable. Denying the law-abiding public the right to reliable, effective self-defense weapons is a violation of civil rights and indeed, of human rights.
The Second Amendment Foundation has already filed a lawsuit to challenge this latest BS.
Governor Newsom is probably the leading candidate for President that the Democrats will offer in 2028. Has common sense really become this out of date?
There is a (maybe) joke that you can get an 80% Sten kit in the plumbing aisle at Home Depot.