NRA, SAF and FPC Sue New York Over Its Glock-Style Handgun Ban
Firing Pin, LLC v. James attacks a law aimed at semiautomatic pistols with cruciform trigger bars — a category covering nearly every Glock-style pistol.
- Complaint filed Aug. 14, 2026: Firing Pin, LLC v. James, W.D.N.Y.
- Plaintiffs: NRA, SAF, FPC, Firing Pin LLC, members Lucas Nelson and Daniel Geary.
- Target law: Chapter 55 of 2026, Part C, Subpart A, signed May 27 by Hochul.
- Bans commercial dealing in “convertible pistols” defined by cruciform trigger bar — Glock-pattern guns.
- NRA has parallel Glock-style challenges in California and Maryland.
NRA, Second Amendment Foundation, Firearms Policy Coalition, The Firing Pin LLC, and NRA members Lucas Nelson and Daniel Geary filed Firing Pin, LLC v. James on August 14, 2026 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. The suit challenges Chapter 55 of the Laws of 2026, Part C, Subpart A — signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul on May 27, 2026 — which bans licensed dealers and gunsmiths from selling, transferring, disposing of, transporting, or shipping as merchandise semiautomatic handguns with a cruciform trigger bar that New York labels “convertible pistols.”
Plaintiffs say that category includes nearly every Glock and Glock-style pistol on the market. They argue the ban violates Heller: the Supreme Court held common firearms cannot be banned and specifically struck down a handgun prohibition. NRA says the New York case builds on similar Glock-style challenges it has already filed in California and Maryland.
This is the conversion-device panic as a product ban. If a state can outlaw America’s most common duty pistol by describing its internals, Heller is a brochure.
"If New York can ban a Glock by describing its trigger bar, Heller’s common-use holding is just a press release."← More Stories
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