In response to California Gov. Gavin Newsom signing new gun-control bills into law, several gunowners’ rights groups have filed a lawsuit challenging the ban on the commercial sale of all Glock and Glock platform handguns in California.
On October 10, 2025 California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 1127 into law, banning the commercial sale of all Glock and Glock-style handguns. The Glock ban takes effect on July 1, 2026.
The new lawsuit, filed October 13, 2025 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, is titled Jaymes v. Bonta, with the named plaintiff being Danielle Jaymes. Jaymes is a resident of San Diego County who might want to buy a Glock or a similar handgun.
As detailed in the Jaymes complaint, the plaintiffs challenge California Penal Code § 27595(a), which bans the sale or transfer of Glock and Glock-style handguns with cruciform trigger bars. “These handguns are in common use; indeed, they are among the most popular firearms in the nation,” the filing explains. If the law takes effect, Californians “will have no practical way to acquire them” — a direct violation of the Second Amendment, the suit concludes.
Another plaintiff is Poway Weapons & Gear, a firearms retailer, shooting range, and training facility in the City of Poway, within San Diego County. The range is bringing the case on behalf of its customers and would-be customers. The other groups joining the suit are the Second Amendment Foundation, the National Rifle Association, Firearms Policy Coalition, a licensed retailer, and another individual.
“The Constitution does not allow elitist politicians to decide which constitutionally protected guns the people may own, and California doesn’t get to tell people that their rights end where Governor Newsom’s tyrannical, anti-Second Amendment politics begin. Every American has a right to choose the tools they trust to defend their lives and liberty. We look forward to ending this insanely unconstitutional scheme just as we have many others,” said FPC President Brandon Combs.
Specifically, the lawsuit challenges AB 1127, which Newsom recently signed into law. The new law bans the sale 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 as a replacement for the slide’s backplate without any additional engineering, machining, or modification of the pistol’s trigger mechanism.” The Glock ban takes effect on July 1, 2026.
SAF Director of Legal Operations Bill Sack said, “Prior to AB 1127, Gen 3 Glock and similar handguns built on the Glock platform were available for commercial sale because they were grandfathered onto California’s handgun roster. California is already subject to an injunction because the California Handgun Roster unconstitutionally bans handguns in common use for lawful purposes. Rather than heed the demands of the Second Amendment and their own courts, California lawmakers have responded by doubling down and expanding their handgun ban. We’ll see them in court.”
“Just as we’ve done in numerous other cases in the state, we will vigorously defend this unconstitutional infringement on the Second Amendment rights of Californians,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “Lawmakers in the state obviously don’t understand that the Second Amendment is not a second-class right, that’s why we have more than a dozen cases currently working their way through California’s legal system. We look forward to defeating this law in court and restoring the rights of California citizens so they can fully exercise their Second Amendment rights.”
The law bans the sale 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 as a replacement for the slide’s backplate without any additional engineering, machining, or modification of the pistol’s trigger mechanism.”
