Not Coming for My Gun  by Tom Reynolds

Many gun owners don’t vote because, “They’re not coming after my gun.”  Well, NY State just hit them with a two-by-four to convince these non-voters that Kathy Hochul and the NYS legislature ARE coming after their gun…and sooner rather than later.  They are banning one of the most popular pistols in America, the Glock.

Governor Hochul has signed the FY 2027 NY State budget.  Included in this bill is a new legal category called a “convertible pistol.” Which is defined as a semi-automatic pistol with a cruciform trigger bar* and that pistol can be readily altered by hand or common household tools to accept a pistol converter and function as a machine gun.  That’s a Glock pistol and so this is known as a ‘Glock Ban.’

After May 28, 2027, NYS dealers and gunsmiths cannot sell, transfer, dispose of, transport, or ship a Glock.

By the way, under existing federal law, possession of machine-gun conversion devices is already a federal crime — even if the device is not installed. 

You can be sure that criminals will be throwing away their already illegal ‘pistol converters’ now that they are illegal in NYS. 

In their generosity, Hochul and the legislature will let you keep your Glock if you lawfully owned it before that date.  But you better confirm it is properly listed on your pistol license and keep documentation showing lawful ownership and the acquisition date.  And watch for guidance from the NY State Police (Remember when they shortened the licensing period from five to three years and didn’t really mention it.)  And good luck if you try to sell, transfer, consign or dispose of it.

There will probably be a run on buying Glocks between now and then, which means the training, paperwork, notarizations, character references, fingerprinting, licensing interviews, judicial reviews, and purchase authorization required by the pistol permitting bureaucracy will be slower than normal, especially in Democrat run areas.  Better start now!

Had enough of NY’s anti-gun politicians.  Don’t think of moving to California, Maryland or Connecticut because they also have Glock bans.  And Minnesota is considering a ban.  New Jersey is in the process of putting a registry together on people who have bought Glocks since the beginning of 2016 and is suing Glock for manufacturing Glocks, so can they be far behind?

Do you have a shotgun?  You might someday saw off part of the barrel and make it an illegal sawed off shotgun.  But Kathy Hochul and her Democrat colleagues would never dream of making that widely owned gun illegal just because you might someday make it into an illegal gun.

By the way, research by the Crime Prevention Research Center showed that murders with illegally-modified Glocks are less frequent than fatal lightning strikes; only 40 people died in attacks using the handguns since the start of 2021, while the National Weather Service confirmed 81 deaths from lightning strikes in the same time frame.**

Not coming after your gun?  The leaders of the Democrat Party are committed to removing all firearms from civilian hands.

* A cross-shaped component that links the trigger and firing pin

** UPDATED: How many people have been murdered with Glock-style guns using Glock switches? About 43 total over the five plus years from 2021 to now? - Crime Prevention Research Center