reports<\/a><\/strong> the DOJ has alleged that the new state laws are unconstitutional.<\/p>\nBut, unlike California\u2019s law, New York made violations punishable by up to seven years in prison. Plaintiffs in the lawsuit against New York\u2019s ban note the U.S. Supreme Court has already told New York it is out of step on the Second Amendment in the case New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen. Now, plaintiffs say they\u2019re arguing the state cannot ban one of the most popular handgun designs in America.<\/p>\n
\u201cLawmakers in New York are doing nothing more than continuing their unconstitutional assault on law-abiding citizens who want to exercise their Second Amendment rights in peace,\u201d Second Amendment Foundation founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb said in a statement. \u201cMaking someone a criminal for selling or transferring a handgun merely because someone can illegally convert those firearms into something they are not is absurd. It\u2019s already illegal to convert these pistols into machineguns and the conversion itself requires possession of other illegal items, but lawmakers persist in focusing on the handgun and not the criminals who will continue committing crimes with or without this new law in place.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Second Amendment Foundation, the National Rifle Association, Firearms Policy Coalition, two private citizens, and a licensed dealer sued New York.<\/p>\n
SAF says factory-stock Glock and Glock-style pistols have a cruciform trigger bar and that design feature alone now meets New York\u2019s definition of a \u201cconvertible pistol.\u201d Once the law takes effect in New York on May 31, 2027, selling or transferring them becomes illegal.<\/p>\n
Glock and Glock-pattern pistols use a polymer frame that houses the fire-control group. There is no separate lower receiver like a rifle. A small illegal part can be inserted to turn the pistol full-auto.<\/p>\n
Illinois advanced a similar bill through committee this year, but it didn\u2019t advance when the session ended.<\/p>\n
As for whether Glock itself will redesign its guns for these big states, Paredes doesn\u2019t think it matters.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe author criticizes Glock for doing nothing about this issue. In fact, they did so with their generation for Glocks,\u201d Paredes said. \u201cThey modified them so the Glock switches could not be applied and all of them in the future. The problem is, the state of California prevents Glock from selling generation 4 or 5, and now 6, in the state of California because of the unreasonableness of the roster.\u201d<\/p>\n
California already maintains a restrictive roster of handguns approved for sale. Manufacturers must prove to state regulators that their guns meet specific safety and testing requirements. Legal challenges to California\u2019s roster are pending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(The Center Square) \u2013\u00a0One of the latest targets in the legal battles around gun control laws is New…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1008172,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,276,2738,1818,564,1571,405,403,40552,5226,5225,5228,5227,5292,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-1008171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-california","tag-connecticut","tag-illinois","tag-maryland","tag-national","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new_york","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-public-safety","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117115335938372411","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1008172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}