BELLEVUE, Wash. — Aug. 5, 2026 — The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and its partners have filed a motion for preliminary injunction in Renna v. Bonta, its case now challenging California’s Glock ban in addition to California’s Handgun Roster.
In October last year, lawmakers in California passed Assembly Bill 1127, which expanded the already unconstitutional Unsafe Handgun Act (UHA), stating that on July 1, 2026 “…licensed firearms dealers ‘shall not sell, offer for sale, exchange, give, transfer, or deliver any semiautomatic machinegun-convertible pistol.’” It further defines a “machinegun-convertible pistol” to include handguns that contain a cruciform trigger bar, therefore banning essentially all Glock and Glock-style handguns, some of the most common firearms on the market today.
“The Supreme Court has already explicitly held that handguns are constitutionally protected, and so are any arms in common use,” said SAF Senior Director of Legal Operations Bill Sack. “So, it figures that California lawmakers chose the most commonly used handguns to ban. We’re hopeful that our two ‘assault weapons’ ban cases, which will be heard by the Supreme Court in the coming term, will address this absurd law, but we also felt it critically important to prevent this ban’s enforcement in the meantime. Hence today’s motion for a preliminary injunction.”
As noted in the motion, “California’s decision to create a new and separate ban…to prohibit additional, commonly possessed handgun models is no more constitutional than the UHA ban already enjoined by this Court. Section 27595’s cruciform-trigger-bar ban is flagrantly unconstitutional and, like the rest of the laws challenged in this suit, seeks to narrow the selection of ordinary handguns available to peaceable Californians.” SAF is joined in Renna by the National Rifle Association, Firearms Policy Coalition, San Diego County Gun Owners PAC, Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and several individuals and licensed gun dealers.
“It’s no surprise that fearmongering lawmakers in California have decided to categorically ban one of the most commonly owned handgun platforms in America,” said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. “We’ve seen these kneejerk reactions time and time again in California and have routinely fought them as the Second Amendment infringements that they are. This case is no different.”
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The Second Amendment Foundation (saf.org) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group dedicated to safeguarding and promoting the fundamental rights of individuals enshrined in the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. SAF engages in aggressive legal action to ensure the principles of armed self-defense, personal liberty, and the ownership of arms are defended, secured, and restored. Through public education initiatives, SAF teaches the importance of the Second Amendment to promote a society that values and exercises the right to keep and bear arms.
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