A U.S. District Court judge in Connecticut has issued an injunction against the state’s ban on pistols that can be easily converted from semiautomatic to fully automatic machine guns using illegal devices.
On Oct. 1, the same day Connecticut’s ban—commonly known as a “Glock ban”—was set to become effective, District Court Judge Kari A. Dooley blocked enforcement of the ban, ruling that it did not meet the legal standard set in the June 2022 U.S. Supreme Court decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen.
In that decision, the high court found that if a law concerned conduct covered by the plain language of the Second Amendment, it was considered unconstitutional unless it had a historical analogue from the time of the amendment’s ratification….