It’s a pretty grand time to be a Second Amendment advocate. The right to keep and bear arms has been boosted by several recent court decisions, key among them being New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen, which changed the landscape of legal matters concerning the Second Amendment for good.
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As a result of Bruen, several anti-gun laws and proposed laws have been, one might say, shot down. Now, in the latest, Harmeet Dhillon, United States Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division, has announced a new lawsuit by the Justice Department (DOJ) challenging California’s Glock ban and handgun roster law.
The Supreme Court made clear: the 2nd Amendment is not a second class right. Some states aren’t getting the message.
Every gun-grabber should note: Banning the most popular pistol in America, violates the 2nd Amendment and @CivilRights is taking action!https://t.co/LiHKJorK1w— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) July 1, 2026
The official press release, found here, states in part:
“The Civil Rights Division will defend law-abiding citizens from states that seek to disarm them illegally,” said Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “This lawsuit is yet another example of this Justice Department enforcing the Second Amendment by protecting citizens against unconstitutional state regulation of firearms.”
California’s new law would ban the retail purchase of common handguns manufactured by Glock and guns with similar firing mechanisms. The state’s existing “Handgun Roster” further limits the types of handguns citizens can lawfully purchase in California. The United States Supreme Court recently reaffirmed that the Second and Fourteenth Amendments protect the right to carry handguns outside the home for self-defense in Wolford v. Lopez. The Court reiterated that states cannot prevent citizens from using commonly used firearms for self-defense.
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Yes, the right to keep and bear arms properly falls to the Civil Rights Division. People on the left, most of whom lack even a nodding acquaintance with the Bill of Rights, don’t get that, but the right to keep and bear arms, acknowledged (not granted) by the Second Amendment, is a fundamental civil right.
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California’s attempted Glock ban is particularly egregious. This piece of overt stupidity targets Glock handguns because of the possibility that criminals – who are already legally precluded from possessing any kind of firearm – might install a “Glock switch,” the manufacture and possession of which is already illegal, thus converting the gun to fire fully-automatic. So, California’s gun owners are to be deprived of the nation’s most popular handgun, in direct violation of the Second Amendment, because of what some criminals might do.
This seems tailor-made for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights division to take on. And, in the post-Bruen world, the DOJ may just win this one, even if it requires taking it to the Supreme Court.
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The Second Amendment crowd (I’m a member of that) has been riding pretty tall in the saddle lately. That’s good, but we should bear in mind that these are battles; the war will go on, as long as the republic goes on. Now, the DOJ, with this filing, has launched another assault on the gun-grabbers. We’ll be watching this one with great interest.
Editor’s Note: President Trump and Republicans across the country are doing everything they can to protect our Second Amendment rights and right to self-defense.
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