Back in July, when California’s hair gel-slathered governor Gavin Newsom thought that tacking toward the center and looking “reasonable” would help him in launching his campaign for the presidency in 2028, he all but declared himself to be a gun guy. In accepting a pistol from podcast host Shawn Ryan, he said . . .
I’m not anti-gun at all. I’m just for some gun safe common-sense. I’m challenged by large capacity clips in urban centers, weapons of war sometimes outgunning the police. But otherwise, man, people have the right to bear arms. I got no ideological opposition to that at all.
You knew that was a lie and so did we. There’s literally nothing Governor Brylcreem won’t say or do to shore up his far left base, and if that involves further impinging on the gun rights of those who live in the woebegone hellhole that the Golden State has become under his management, so be it.
Last night, in a Friday night news dump, Newsom signed into law four new gun control bills including one that bans the sale and possession of GLOCK pistols in the state. The bill was ostensibly written because criminals are able to print illegal switches that convert standard semi-auto GLOCKs into fully automatic handguns. That provided California’s most rabid gun-grabbers a handy excuse to zero out a high profile segment of the handguns the state allows its residents to own.
And yes, that’s the same kind of pistol that fellow left coast fraud and failed presidential candidate Kamala Harris laughably claimed she owns last fall.
“I have a Glock, and I’ve had it for quite some time,” says VP Harris, addressing the surprise some people felt upon learning she’s a gun owner. “My background is in law enforcement. And so there you go.” https://t.co/3WvS0NXkSP pic.twitter.com/dGDqEy17IL
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) October 8, 2024
Expect lawsuits challenging the ban to be filed as early as today. Here’s FPC’s response to Newsom’s cynical move . . .
Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) issued the following statement in response to California Governor Gavin Newsom signing AB 1127—the so-called “Glock ban”—which criminalizes the possession of widely owned, constitutionally protected handguns:
Governor Newsom has once again proven that California’s political class will stop at nothing to attack peaceable people and their rights. AB 1127 is an unconstitutional, bad-faith attempt to outlaw some of the most common firearms in the United States.
But no tyrant, no politician, and no state will ever be allowed to extinguish the rights of a free people. Not now. Not ever.
FPC and our legal team have been preparing a challenge to AB 1127 for months. We and our allies will move swiftly to strike down this unlawful and immoral ban in federal court. The Constitution—not Gavin Newsom—defines the limits of government power, and we will make sure he once more learns that lesson.
I’m sure all the thugs, gangsters, cartel henchmen and various other ne’er-do-wells will be lining up post haste to turn’em all in.
CA really is the Hunger Games. A handful of hyper-wealthy elites ruling over streets filled with human excrement and fentanyl zombies being preyed upon by various criminal factions while the handful of normal people are either hunkering down hoping to be passed by or actively defending all this in some denial spiral or stuck in Stockholm syndrome.
That state needs more fires.
“That state needs more fires.”
Just in the right places. 😉
Well, the SCotUS just granted cert. in that Hawai’i gun possession case before it was completely ruled on, maybe they will do the same with this one, especially as it is a clear violation of the watershed ‘Heller’ ruling, where it was stated guns ‘in common use’ were *expressly* protected under the 2A.
And there is no more common of a handgun than the stereotypical semi-auto ‘Glock’-style handgun…
So … did anybody think he *wouldn’t* sign it?
Who wrote this anti-civil rights california state law?
Was it an @”thei;st? Was it a h0,m:0sez;u@l?
“…Newsom signed into law four new gun control bills including one that bans the sale and possession of GLOCK pistols in the state.” [emphasis mine]
I just read the entirety of the bill (yes, I really did), and it appears to truly be the horrible piece of legislation we all had hoped would not see the light of day as codified law. Infamously referred to in POTG circles as the “GLOCK Law”, it bans mere possession of “…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…”
This is a prima facia unconstitutional law, and any junior high student could determine it as such from a mile away. Will be overturned and shut down, just as nearly every gun-control law passed since 2011 (when former Gov. Brown started the modern onslaught against our rights, followed by Newsom) has been. Keep in mind that CA was a formerly solid red State as recently as the early ’90s, and much of our law going back decades supports personal rights from a conservative foundation. We have Castle Doctrine, Good Samaritan, and other such laws here, but they’re overshadowed by the current crop of anti-liberty Democrats who have cheated their way to their current supermajority at the State level.
Something to ponder, Newsom…the gun models I currently have on my CCW conform to CADOJ standards. So if they’re going to be prohibited from mere possession going forward, does this mean they’ll no longer be valid for my next license renewal? And what about the Counties here that don’t allow 1911-style guns for their permits…does removing the super common “crucible trigger” style striker fired guns most people carry today halt CCW issuance in its tracks? My oh my…methinks that would present yet another slam-dunk argument to have your stupid law overturned, just like other gun control you’ve passed has already been.
With the implosion of Dems nationwide insofar as their political viability, I don’t think our Dear Leader Newsom has really thought this through to consider the effects of this latest antic on his future dreams, if any still exist as possibilities for him at this point.
Haz, will you be required to part ways with any Glock-style handguns you currently own, or can you keep them?
Yup.
Moderation again. I’ll take the week off and come back next Saturday to give the site goblins a chance to shift their focus on someone else.
What four words attached to California legislation guarantee that it’s stupid, incredibly expensive, and/or flat out unconstitutional? “First in the nation”.