The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) might not be directly involved in the new lawsuit challenging California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Glock ban, but the organization’s leaders still had some choice words for arguably America’s most anti-gun governor.
On October 14, CCRKBA posted a news item to its website in which it weighed in on the unconstitutional law, the new lawsuit and on Gov. Newsom personally.
The lawsuit, Jaymes v. Bonta, was filed on October 13 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF), the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC).
Under the new law, AB 1127, California firearm dealers will be prohibited from selling a broad class of popular and constitutionally protected semi-automatic handguns, including Glocks. It specifically bans the sale of “…any semi-automatic pistol with a cruciform trigger bar that can be readily converted by hand or with common household tools…into a machinegun by the installation or attachment of a pistol converter as a replacement for the slide’s backplate without any additional engineering, machining, or modification of the pistol’s trigger mechanism.”
“These handguns are in common use; indeed, they are among the most popular firearms in the nation,” the plaintiffs argue. If the law takes effect, Californians “will have no practical way to acquire them”—a direct violation of the Second Amendment.
CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb said Newsom ignored earlier court rulings in signing the measure into law.
“The court has already held that several provisions of the UHA (Unsafe Handgun Act) likely violate the Second Amendment,” Gottlieb observed, “but instead of taking a hint from the court, Gov. Newsom has doubled down because of what can best be described as a case of handgun derangement syndrome by signing this new legislation. This new ban is flagrantly unconstitutional, and Newsom must know it.”
Gottlieb said Democrats in Sacramento evidently “didn’t get the memo” from the U.S. Supreme Court that the Second Amendment is not a second-class right. He also accused Newsom and Democrats in the legislature of being determined to play a game of “one-upmanship” with the courts and the constitution.
“This may be a game for Newsom and the Democrats in Sacramento, but defending the Second Amendment rights of California gun owners is not a game,” Gottlieb said. “This is not some kind of sporting match for Newsom’s amusement. You don’t fight crime by restricting the rights of peaceable, law-abiding citizens. We’re going to closely monitor this legal action, and based on previous results, we expect the court to act decisively.”
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