Single Glock Pistol Wins California’s Approval

The state of California approved a single model of Glock pistol, according to a legal filing in federal court as a Justice Department lawsuit is pending.

After Democratic California Attorney General Rob Bonta refused to discuss a possible settlement with Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, the DOJ filed suit in federal court to invalidate the measure and California’s “Unsafe Handgun Act,” seeking a temporary restraining order against the Glock ban. In the Tuesday night notice provided to United States District Judge Monica Ramirez Almadani of the Central District of California, a Biden appointee, California said it had approved a version of the Glock 43.

“The California Department of Justice’s webpage listing for the new Glock semiautomatic pistol model, Glock 43X CA, on the Handgun Roster, which does not have a plus symbol next to the model name, indicating that it does not fall within the definition of a machinegun-convertible pistol under California Penal Code section 16885 and thus is not subject to the prohibition on the sale, transfer, or delivery of machinegun-convertible pistols by firearms dealers,” the filing claimed.

The Clock 43 is a semiautomatic pistol chambered for the 9x19mm NATO round, according to Glock’s website. It holds six rounds in its magazine and weighs just under 21 ounces when a loaded magazine is inserted.

Some pro-Second Amendment advocates suspected that the state was trying to render the DOJ case “moot” with the approval. An attorney representing Glock did not respond to a request for comment from the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“Pretty strong evidence that their approval may have been motivated by trying to moot this lawsuit. From what I heard, Judge Almadani had some surprisingly tough questions for CADOJ (not that that necessarily means she’d rule against them),” Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) Director of Legal Research and Education Konstadinos Moros