this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2025
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Context for those living in less restrictive areas:

AB 1127 is a California Bill that aims to ban the sale of "semiautomatic machinegun-convertible pistols" (ie pistols that can utilize a Glock switch or similar). The bill doesn't mention Glock by name, but it's intent seems to be geared towards removing the Gen 3 Glocks from the market.

Ironically, one of the main reasons the Gen 3 is still so prevalent despite the Gen 4 and 5 having been out for a while, is that California has not added (and likely will not add) them to its "handgun roster" (a whitelist of handguns you are allowed to own in the state - I know). The Gen 4 and 5 are not as easily modded to be full-auto (though it's still possible), so if those had been added to the roster, chances are high that there'd be far less full-auto Gen 3s floating around...

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thank god for all those guns in the US. They will come in really handy if an authoritarian government comes to power.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Meanwhile, criminals and "criminals":

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's always fascinating to watch US gun regulation attempts and reactions to them from a perspective of someone living in a country where you straight up can't buy guns unless you are a hunter or a member of a target shooting sports club and even then it takes over a year to get permits.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm in one of those countries (well, it takes 3 months to get a firearms license) and ironically I could go buy a gen 5 Glock tomorrow, if I wanted to.

(I don't want to, I don't get the fascination with them when CZ and Walther are available, but there you go ...)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Having owned both a Glock and a CZ, I'd sell the Glock in a heartbeat. The Shadow will never get sold. Such an incredible firearm, even stock.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I knew I'd snag at least one Glock owner with that comment, lol