California's Senate could vote as early as this week on a bill that would ban the sale of all Glock handguns in the state. While newer Gen 4 and Gen 5 models of Glock are already prohibited for sale, just like virtually every other semi-automatic handgun that's come on the market since California passed its law requiring microstamping technology in order to be eligible for the state's handgun roster, older models are still legal to purchase and possess.
That could soon change, though, after the Senate Appropriations Committee gave its stamp of approval to AB 1127 late last week. As the Firearms Policy Coalition pointed out, though, the committee did make one change to the bill before passing it out to the floor.
The California Glock ban bill already exempted sales to police departments, but now it has been amended to also exempt sales to individual police officers: https://t.co/Jy4CUIBru2 pic.twitter.com/4uA2L5uHPA
— Firearms Policy Coalition (@gunpolicy) August 30, 2025
Anti-gunners routinely exempt law enforcement from the gun control laws they're tasked with enforcing, so on the one hand this isn't a big surprise. Still, from a logical perspective (I know, I know, since when was gun control about logic?) this makes no sense whatsoever.
The stated rationale behind the Glock ban bill is that these firearms are readily converted to full auto fire, which makes them too dangerous to be on the market. Even if police officers aren't as likely to break federal law by illegally installing a switch as your garden variety gangbanger, this exemption still allows more Glocks to be sold; firearms that could end up on the black market through theft or personal sales by those officers. There have been multiple LEOs in California who've been convicted of or pled guilty to being engaged in the business of dealing firearms without a license for repeatedly buying off-roster guns and selling them in personal sales. Banning the commercial sale of Glocks while exempting police from private transfers is going to be very enticing to some cops looking to make some easy money.
Even if the bill doesn't fuel a boom in private transfers, the fact that police can still purchase Glocks means that the guns will continue to be found at many local gun stores, where they could enter the black market through theft. Gun shop burglars are pretty brazen these days, often ramming stolen cars through the front door or windows of shops and then quickly taking off in a second stolen vehicle. Even if the perpetrators are identified, stolen guns aren't always recovered, so AB 1127 will likely lead to more Glocks ending up the hands of criminals, especially since California Democrats are intent on making the firearm legally and culturally taboo.
I think this bill is unconstitutional regardless of whether law enforcement is exempted, but allowing some Glocks to be sold to some Californians defeats the bill's stated purpose. So what's this really about? Instead of trying to ban all handguns all at once, the gun control lobby is now intent on enacting a prohibition piece-by-piece. Today it's Glock. Tomorrow it might be Sig, or Beretta, or Kahr. And if federal courts uphold these B.S. "gun rosters", blue states can prohibit the sale of the vast majority of firearms on the market by claiming they're "unsafe" under subjectively imposed standards.
AB 1127 will face a flurry of legal challenges if Gavin Newsom signs it into law, which I suspect he will. Newsom has been cosplaying as a gun owner for a few months now, but he's not about to risk the ire of the gun control lobby when he's planning a presidential run in 2028. I expect Newsom to argue that a Glock ban is just a "common sense gun safety regulation", while completely ignoring the law enforcement loophole that undermines the bill's bogus premise.
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