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 Has common sense really become this out of date?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.
80%? More like 90%, as I understand it. It doesn’t take much drilling/milling to turn a steel pipe into a Sten receiver.
You may have seen the news from just yesterday that Glock appears to have capitulated by — as surprising as it is — deprecating all their current models and replacing them with “V” versions that are not as easily convertible to full auto.
Beat me to it.
But something tells me California’s new Glock-ban law will stand … and also ban the sale of the new, not-as-easily-convertible pistols.
My question is: Will Glock continue to supply California’s law enforcement agencies with pistols the non-LEO citizenry is prohibited from buying?
And a follow-up: What about other manufacturers?
Yeah. They did a 1990s Tompkins S&W/Ruger… might as well hire Dylan Mulvaney to booth-babe for them at NRAAM and SHOT.
They don’t prosecute gangbangers for having Glock switches. The existence of switches is just an excuse to take as many guns as possible away from as many law abiding citizens as possible. Having an “excuse” to outlaw the most popular handgun in the US is a real bonus.
They usually don’t prosecute criminals for having guns, Glock-switched or not.
If the problem is “criminals with guns,” you’d think they’d be diligent about prosecuting felons-in-possession for being felons in possession, using the full force of the law.
But they don’t. Therefore, based on their actions, they have no issue with criminals having guns; it’s the lawful, peaceable citizens having guns that they find intolerable.
Instead of doing a Tompkins S&W/Ruger and dumping their entire catalog in reply, Glock SHOULD have rammed the Barrett Rule so far up the Ban States’ collective keister it knocked out teeth. “Absolutely no sales in these states private or gov, neither direct from us nor from any Authorized Retailer or Distributor.”
This is not meant as anti-cop, this is anti-special privilege – if we can’t have it you can’t have it, if you want it for duty start fighting for us. Remember, when Hoover was questioned about what authority he armed his FBI under he said the Second Amendment was all the authority his agents needed…
To be clear, Mas, thanks for fighting the good fight all these years – just saying we’d have a lot more weight in the 2A fight if FOP’s, PBA’s etc stood with us more in pushing back whenever pols with skulls more full of crap than my loo after an all-day binge at a Mongolian buffet get another visit from the Gungrab Idea Fairy.
There is no path so foolish that the Deamoncrats will not enthusiastically journey down that path.
Since the Firearms Act of 1920 in the UK, it required police permission to purchase, possess or use most firearms and ammunition. Applicants had to show a “good reason,” thus ownership became a privilege not a right. Said privilege was taken away over the years. No 2nd Amendment then or ever, and now you can be arrested and jailed for “wrongthink.” Thus no 1st Amendment either. That’s our future path if Newsome and his minions have political power. The Second Amendment Foundation has my support, thanks to Mas.
Anything to do with guns from ANY democrat politician will be stupid. Because they are ALL, EVERY SINGLE ONE, idiots. Their collective I Q. cannot even reach triple digits.
California, and all of the antigun states, want to ban all types of firearms. That is an elephant sized task that can only be done one small bite at a time.
I continue to pray that the SCOTUS will finally step in and put an end to the madness but I am losing hope. They have every good opportunity to do so and they don’t show any desire. Maybe they’re waiting for Justice Thomas to die off so they have enough votes to support all of the goofy bans and other laws.
It seems the devide between common sense and politics widens with every election cycle. We need better choices on the ballot not just a selection of game show hosts.
Well, during my employment travels around the country during all of the ammo shortage (s) & gun grab scares during certain administrations, I see this as an opportunity for gun shops to put premium prices on all remaining Glock inventory. AND , they will probably sell ALL of them! Won’t make a d#!n bit of difference to the crooks OR, THEY will make a killing selling more illegal weapons. Remember Prohibition & illegal substances??!!
It’s nauseating to even think that empty suit could become president but since the last democrat got in with an empty head, nothing is impossible. Newsome has put CA on the rocket sled to hell and would do the same to the Nation.
Rational appeals have no effect on mob hysteria.
(Helen Andrews)
When I asked an inside source from Smyrna GA if that Glock V article was total BS. he said: “If it’s true… someone is losing their job”
As I recall, any “existing Glocks” in the state are grandfathered in. But will that also grandfather visitors showing up with older Glocks (and a Cali ccw and a 10rd mag)?
“Giving law-breakers just another law to break is laughable.”
The object of firearms-prohibition is people control. While it is always sold to the public, and the politicians, as a measure for “Crime Control” or to limit violence, this is a lie. A deception. A smoke-screen to cloak and hide their true goals.
The goal here is to disarm the American Citizen so as to (ultimately) reduce him to subservient peonage to the “All Powerful Government”. Leftists worship Government as their “One True God”. They will tolerate no resistance to their God. Therefore, the People must be disarmed so that their God-Government will have a monopoly on the use of force.
The First Commandment of the Left is:
“The Government is your one True God. Thou shall worship Government as WE DO. No other Gods or concerns (not religion, nor family, nor love of Country, nor a desire to live independently, etc.) will be tolerated.”
The Heller Decision means that the Left is blocked (for now) from outright bans of handguns. So, they are implementing their standard operating procedure (SOP) when meeting such a road-block. The fall back on incrementalism and attempt to implement bans in a piecemeal fashion. In other words, by individual models rather than as a whole class.
They have developed arguments to ban Glocks (too easy to convert to full auto) and the SIG P320 (unsafe to carry). They are using these excuses to implement selective bans of these models as part of their incremental banning approach to circumvent the 2nd Amendment.
It is a mistake to give any credence to anything that the Left says. Deceit is all they know. Everything they say is built upon lies. The California Ban has NOTHING to do with keeping automatic weapons out of the hands of criminals. It has EVERYTHING to do with disarming the American Citizen. That is the real goal here.
Unfortunately, the Left’s deception seems to be working. Glock has announced that they are going to remove many of their old models from the market and replace them with selected, updated versions. No doubt, they will try to design the new models to be resistant to the installation of current-generation Glock switches.
This is a foolish move by Glock. When one tries to appease the Left, one only encourages further abuse. The Left will react like Sharks that smell blood in the water. Also, of course, how long will it be before the updated Glock Switch appear that will work with the new models?
Don’t treat the Left as if they have legitimate concerns. Their only concern is to disarm the American Citizen by any means necessary. This is all a lie.