A Look at the States Declaring Jihad on Glocks

As I write this, I have a Glock 19 in easy reach. It took me a little while to warm up to the guns with my first handling of them, feeling really weird due to the grip’s angle, but it didn’t take long for it to feel just like any other well-made handgun to me.

I bought it after years of having difficulty finding accessories for my CZ-75B. That’s a great firearm, too, but it’s a more niche gun in many ways, so it’s not as easy to mount a light on it, find aftermarket magazines at a decent price, and so forth.

Glocks, being super common, are different.

Despite being so common, though, several states have either banned them or are trying to ban them…among other attacks.

The Glock pistol is one of the most popular firearms in the country since it was introduced in the 1980s, but that has not stopped multiple states from trying to prohibit future sales of the handgun.

To date, four states have banned the ubiquitous pistol, claiming that it is too easy to convert it into a fully-automatic firearm. One state, Illinois, is considering a ban, with the bill passing a committee vote on May 20, but it has not been acted upon by the full state House of Representatives.

California was the first state to enact a ban when Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB1127 into law on October 2025. In May, though, the pace accelerated, as Democratic Maryland Gov. Wes Moore signed legislation Tuesday that could ban the sale of Glock pistols, with Democratic Govs. Ned Lamont of Connecticut and Kathy Hochul of New York following suit within days.

Three states and several cities have taken a different approach, electing to sue the manufacturer. Minnesota and New Jersey filed their suits in December 2024.

“I am suing Glock for knowingly manufacturing and selling handguns that can easily be converted into machine guns,” Democratic Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison said. “Glock’s actions, and their inaction, violate Minnesota law, and put kids, communities and law enforcement in danger. This has to stop. Today’s lawsuit against Glock is about protecting our kids and protecting the guardians who look out for us.”

Now, at the core of all of this is that supposedly, Glocks are a problem because they’re so easily convertible into a full-auto machine pistol.

That is technically true, but what seems to be missing from the conversation is that the devices that allow this conversion were not developed by Glock, were not made by Glock, are illegal under federal law, and there are only a handful of legally transferable switches in the country. In other words, this conversion–an illegal act in and of itself–happens completely outside of anything Glock has done, yet they’re the ones being punished for it.

The argument is that it’s Glock’s fault because they haven’t changed their design to prevent the conversions from happening, but I fail to see how that’s Glock’s fault. They developed their entire platform, one that works very well, is very reliable, and that comes at a relatively affordable price. They pretty much hit the sweet spot, and both private citizens and law enforcement agencies rewarded them by throwing billions at them over the years. Why would they mess with a good thing when every aspect of what these criminals were doing was, in fact, criminal?

It’s bonkers.

But if you notice, the states that have banned them are the states that are looking for any excuse to ban anything. While the full-auto switches are showing up more and more often, we’re not getting a lot of details about just how often they’re being recovered, especially not in context to literally anything else. That’s because states like California, New York, and Connecticut don’t actually care about that. 

The switches aren’t the reason they’re trying to ban Glocks. It’s an excuse.

The goal here, as in all things they do, is to make it harder for people to own firearms. They know good and well that criminals will keep getting guns that can be converted–many so-called ghost guns are made on a Glock pattern, after all–and will keep getting switches from China, all to increase their firepower.

After all, if we can’t keep them from getting the switches, which are illegal in all 50 states, then how are you going to stop the bad guys from getting Glocks and similarly convertible handguns?

Either they’re too moronic to recognize that, and that would require stupidity so severe their brains wouldn’t even remember to breathe, or they know it and they simply don’t care because that’s not the point.

Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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