California’s New Law Redefines Glocks as ‘Machinegun-Convertible’ Pistols, Bans Them
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The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 17 October 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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California’s new law just signed into effect by Gov. Gavin Newsom reclassifies many Glock handguns as “machinegun-convertible pistols.” Let’s go through what this means and whether the state has the legal authority to do it.
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| 0:00.0 | Well, California is at it once again, because you see in this country for the past several years now, you've had two different tracks that states are going down. |
| 0:09.6 | On the one hand, you have over half of the states going constitutional in terms of the Second Amendment, meaning they've enshrined laws in their state books, whether that's in the state constitution or just in the state statutes, |
| 0:21.5 | ensuring that their citizens have access to their Second Amendment rights. |
| 0:25.4 | On the flip side, however, you have other states restricting their citizens' access to firearms, |
| 0:31.1 | and for that group, California is basically leading the charge. |
| 0:33.7 | Over the past half decade, actually decade now, they have passed one law after another |
| 0:38.7 | that in one shape or form restricts their citizens' access to firearms. And this latest law |
| 0:45.2 | is the subject of today's episode. On Monday, October 13th, the governor of California, Gavin Newsom, |
| 0:51.0 | signed into law a state ban on Glock handguns. |
| 0:54.6 | Specifically, this was Assembly Bill 1127, or as it's otherwise known, the Responsible Gun Manufacturing Act. |
| 1:01.9 | And what this law does in practice is it redefines what a Glock is. |
| 1:07.2 | Instead of being just a handgun, a Glock is now considered a machine gun convertible pistol. |
| 1:13.0 | And therefore, starting on July 1st, 2026, all sales of this machine gun convertible pistol |
| 1:18.7 | are banned in the state. Now, the thinking, at least on paper, behind this reclassification, |
| 1:23.7 | is that a Glock can easily be transformed into an automatic weapon using a screwdriver and a pistol converter. |
| 1:30.2 | Here's specifically how it's actually laid out in the text of the law. |
| 1:33.6 | Quote, |
| 1:34.5 | A machine gun convertible pistol is any semi-automatic pistol with a cruciform trigger bar |
| 1:40.6 | that can be readily converted by hand or with common household tools into a machine |
| 1:45.2 | gun by the installation or attachment of a pistol converter. |
| 1:49.3 | And then the law goes on further to define what a pistol converter device actually is. |
| 1:55.0 | Any device or instrument that, when installed in or attached to the rear of the slide of a semi-automatic pistol, |
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