GLOCK BAN BILL: All Politics – Zero Safety

Why has Assemblyman Jesse Gabriel (D/Encino), writer of laws to primarily ban the sale of Glock handguns in California – saved such a low profile a few invoice of such significance? Why is he not publicly pounding his chest that his AB 1127 would bust the door open for future gun bans?  Absolutely a invoice of such consequence would pop up someplace on his socials, however there may be completely nothing. Is there no satisfaction in one thing that’s so distinctly punitive and politically biased?

In brief, AB 1127 is a nasty, unhealthy invoice.  It bans so-called “convertible pistols” and redefines semi-auto pistols as “convertible” just because they may hypothetically be modified. No query about it – such laws units up a harmful precedent for different firearm prohibitions down the street.

What few feedback Gabriel has made about his invoice have been brief on details and massive on lies.  In feedback to Sacramento’s ABC 10, Gabriel asserts that the “firearm business has identified for many years a few vulnerability in some designs rendering them readily convertible into computerized weapons.”  In testimony earlier than each the Meeting Public Security and Judiciary Committees he went even additional, outfight mendacity that the business “has performed nothing” to repair the issue.

Not true.  The chilly, arduous fact is that Glock’s Gen 4 and 5 designs have been modified, however California has refused to permit them to be added to the state’s roster of protected firearms. This isn’t solely hypocritical however it’s politically biased, additional demonstrating that this laws just isn’t about security however about incremental firearm prohibitions.

ABC 10 reported that this legislative effort comes after “transformed” weapons have been utilized in a number of mass shootings, together with a 2022 incident the place six folks have been killed and 12 wounded, in what police say was a shootout between rival Sacramento gangs.

Rival gangs.

Over 100 bullets have been fired — in what was described as rapid-fire bursts — in the course of the shootout.  Given Assemblyman Gabriel’s concern for the “gun violence epidemic”, possibly he convened some type of job pressure comprised of a bunch of road thugs and gang members to debate “options”.  Perhaps all of them agreed a model new invoice was wanted to compel them to obey the legislation and never convert a firearm right into a machine gun.  – we want a brand new legislation to make one thing that’s unlawful – illegaler!

Certainly, it’s already federally unlawful to personal unregistered machine weapons, plus the sale of pistol switches is already prohibited in California.

AB 1127 will merely punish authorized firearm purchasers by limiting their selections whereas criminals will proceed to function with out regard for the legislation. Mockingly, California is now scrambling to repair an issue of its personal making—blocking entry to fashionable, safer handgun fashions after which blaming authorized gun house owners for the results. What’s extra, the invoice fails to acknowledge that just about all semi-automatic pistols may theoretically be thought-about a “convertible pistol” making their definition overly broad and unenforceable.

GOC’s Sam Paredes has been way more outspoken in opposition on this invoice than Gabriel has been in protection of this unhealthy coverage.  “It’s a ban, as a result of anybody else sooner or later who desires to buy a Glock is not going to be allowed to take action with out committing an egregious crime,” he mentioned, “What the state of California must do is they should deal with the felony component, rising the punishments for the misuse of any firearms or modifying any gun into an unlawful configuration.”

AB 1127 has handed out of the Meeting’s coverage committees, and if handed by the Senate and signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, Paredes says he and different gun rights group leaders can be submitting a direct authorized problem.

“Each professional Second Modification group within the nation finds this legislation to be egregious, a vile usurpation of the Second Modification and everyone seems to be planning on becoming a member of collectively to file a lawsuit of large proportions towards this invoice,” Paredes mentioned.

For a further on-point evaluation of AB 1127, try the story in Survival World HERE.