The Justice Department (DOJ) on July 1 sued California over its ban on “machinegun convertible pistols” and its “handgun roster.”
The law bans the purchase of Glock pistols and guns with similar firing mechanisms, according to a DOJ press release.
The handgun roster limits the handguns California citizens can legally buy.
The DOJ claims both are unconstitutional.
Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation known as Assembly Bill 1127 in October 2025 to prohibit licensed firearms dealers from selling, transferring, or delivering “semiautomatic machinegun-convertible pistols.”
The law went into effect on July 1, the same day that DOJ sued.
Under the law, a machinegun-convertible pistol is “any semiautomatic pistol with a cruciform trigger bar that can be readily converted … into a machinegun by the installation or attachment of a pistol converter … without any additional engineering, machining, or modification of the pistol’s trigger mechanism.”…