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 following Monday, October 13, 2025 SAF and its partners filed a lawasuit challenging the ban.
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.” The Glock ban takes effect on July 1, 2026.
Because Glock and Glock platform handguns are indisputably in common use for lawful purposes across the nation and in California, they fall squarely within the protections fo the Second Amendment and cannot be banned.
SAF is joined in the case by the National Rifle Association of America, Firearms Policy Coalition, a licensed firarms retailer, and two individuals
Case Team: David H. Thompson, Peter A. Patterson, William V. Bergstrom, Bradley A. Benbrook, Stephen M. Duvernay.
Recent Docket Activity
April 13th, 2026
ORDER granting 30 Joint Motion to Dismiss. Signed by Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel on 4/13/2026.
April 10th, 2026
Joint MOTION to Dismiss by Firearms Policy Coalition Inc., Danielle Jaymes, National Rifle Association of America, PWGG, L.P., John Phillips, Second Amendment Foundation. .
March 27th, 2026
Joint MOTION to Stay Proceedings by Firearms Policy Coalition Inc., Danielle Jaymes, National Rifle Association of America, PWGG, L.P., John Phillips, Second Amendment Foundation. .
March 27th, 2026
Joint MOTION to Amend/Correct 27 Joint MOTION to Stay Proceedings by Firearms Policy Coalition Inc., Danielle Jaymes, National Rifle Association of America, PWGG, L.P., John Phillips, Second Amendment Foundation. .
March 27th, 2026
ORDER Granting Joint Motion to Stay . The parties should provide the Court with a joint status report within ninety days of the issuance of this order. Signed by Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel on 3/27/26.
January 21st, 2026
Minutes for proceedings held before Magistrate Judge Daniel E. Butcher: Case Management/Status Conference held on 1/21/2026. Scheduling order to enter separately. ..
January 21st, 2026
SCHEDULING ORDER Regulating Discovery and Other Pre-trial Proceedings. Telephonic Status Conference set for 4/3/2026 at 10:00 AM before Magistrate Judge Daniel E. Butcher. Proposed Pretrial Order due by 11/6/2026. Final Pretrial Conference set for 11/13/2026 at 01:30 PM in Courtroom 12A before Judge Gonzalo P. Curiel. Signed by Magistrate Judge Daniel E. Butcher on 1/21/26.
