00:00:27.000The law will remind Americans why California has become the ultimate legislative laboratory for aggressive gun control.
00:00:32.000So, firearms dealers across the state of California will no longer be permitted to sell new Glock handguns or similar models that state lawmakers have aggressively reclassified as a form of machine gun.
00:00:43.000A machine gun is where you hold down the trigger and it's automatic, meaning that it just keeps firing until you let your finger off the trigger.
00:00:51.000A Glock handgun, which is just a semi automatic, meaning every time you pull the trigger, one bullet comes out, that is not a machine gun.
00:00:57.000So, they have to go around the law in order to get here.
00:01:00.000The justification behind this radical pivot Is these pistols can supposedly be modified easily with illegal aftermarket conversion devices that fundamentally alter their rate of fire?1.00
00:01:10.000Well, I mean, that's unbelievably stupid.0.98
00:01:11.000Again, you are now blaming Glock and the gun dealers for people doing illegal things with the guns.1.00
00:01:17.000You're saying that you can't sell a gun that is perfectly legal in its function because somebody might buy an aftermarket edition and make it illegal.
00:01:40.000If I go and I buy a bunch of knives, I buy a knife set, and then I decide that I'm going to attach that to a front of a bicycle, which would be illegal, are bicycles or knives banned or both?
00:01:52.000And the idea of gun control in California has been a gigantic failure all the way through.
00:01:58.000The state, again, is deciding to restrict future retail access to the Glock.
00:02:01.000It is the most popular handgun in America.
00:02:06.000Now, again, Vice President Kamala Harris, you'll recall in 2024, literally said she owned a Glock.
00:02:12.000Now, if you already own one, you're grandfathered in.
00:02:15.000I can't imagine that this withstands Second Amendment scrutiny under the Constitution.
00:02:19.000Remember, the Supreme Court has decided that you do have Second Amendment rights that apply to you at the individual level, and that guns that are in common usage cannot be barred by the state.
00:02:29.000Locks are in common usage, trying to reclassify it as a machine gun.
00:02:33.000If you want to bar the part that makes it into a machine gun, theoretically you could do that, but that's not what they're doing.
00:02:38.000No matter where you grow up in America, there are certain things almost everybody recognizes.
00:02:42.000Little League games on a Saturday afternoon, a family barbecue in the backyard, road trips, the cooler in the backseat, a high school football game under the lights, different states, different backgrounds, different traditions.
00:02:51.000Some experiences are just part of American life.
00:02:53.000And for generations, America's beverage companies have been right there in all of those moments.
00:02:58.000The sodas, teas, sparkling water, sports drinks, other beverages that people have enjoyed for decades, they're not just products, they're part of countless family gatherings, celebrations, milestones, everyday moments.
00:03:06.000Look back at your old family pictures.
00:03:39.000Again, the deep and abiding desire to disarm gun owners who are legally Abiding by the restrictions of law, it's pretty incredible.
00:03:51.000The vast majority of people who own Glocks in the United States are not using them for gun violence.
00:03:55.000The vast majority of gun violence in the United States is being perpetrated by young males, many of whom are in gangs.
00:04:02.000If you want to crack down on criminality, it turns out that the best way to do that is not to bar people like Kamala Harris from owning a Glock.
00:04:09.000The best way to do it is to crack down on criminality and put criminals in jail for a long time.
00:04:14.000But the same people who want to open up the jails, who say we should abolish prisons, those are the same exact people who go around saying that we need to ban guns for the law abiding, which is a little weird.
00:04:23.000You want to abolish the prisons and let the criminals out.
00:04:26.000And criminals definitionally do not care about the law, but you want law abiding citizens not to be able to obtain a weapon to protect themselves.
00:04:43.000So when I was living in LA, I went to go see if I could get a CCW, a concealed carry permit, because, you know, I get a lot of death threats.
00:05:58.000I have sympathy for a lot of law abiding people who have to fend off the criminals that the left is trying to release.
00:06:05.000And when it comes to the possibility of a government that is going to encroach on your fundamental rights, which originally was the reason for the Second Amendment, the idea being that you might need to resist encroachments upon your rights, I don't know, does that feel like a very distant possibility now, or does it feel more and more real?
00:06:26.000Hard to make the case at this point that America is a place where protection of rights is fundamentally safe.
00:06:32.000Now, again, the Supreme Court has ruled on this, and I cannot imagine that this law is going to withstand basic scrutiny.
00:06:38.000The Supreme Court said that the Second Amendment does, in fact, apply to people at every level of government.
00:06:44.000In the same way, the First Amendment applies to you, the Second Amendment applies to you.
00:07:00.000The entire framework that's being designed here is meant to ban all guns because obviously you could use the same exact logic with regard to a rifle.
00:07:07.000There are aftermarket additions that you can add to pretty much any rifle that, quote unquote, turn it into a machine gun.
00:07:14.000This is what they call bump stocks, right?
00:07:15.000Bump stocks are a way for you to essentially hold down the trigger and fire repeatedly.
00:07:20.000And the idea is that this turns it into a machine gun.
00:07:22.000Bump stocks have been banned in a wide variety of states.
00:07:25.000But again, if the idea is that you can ban the underlying gun because you can aftermarket fix it so that it works illegally, that's true about everything.
00:07:32.000I mean, virtually every product that you use in your household is regulated in particular ways in terms of its production and liability.
00:07:39.000But it's only guns they're trying to apply this logic to.
00:07:42.000Again, I do not think that this survives scrutiny at the level of the Supreme Court.
00:07:48.000And the message is that if you want to own a gun, you should live in California.
00:07:51.000As always, legislation accomplishes a couple things.
00:07:54.000One, the actual purpose of the legislation.
00:07:56.000And then, second, the sort of messaging purpose of the legislation.
00:07:59.000The reason that California is taking on Glock is because it's trying to make it non profitable for Glock to even distribute in California at all.
00:08:07.000If they ban their handguns, then Glock presumably says, we're not going to jump through the hoops that California forces us to jump through, and they just stop moving their guns through California at all, even federally licensed firearms dealers.
00:08:18.000So, understand the actual game that's being played here has nothing to do with lowering crime in California.
00:08:23.000Again, California is a state that routinely reclassifies crimes they don't count as crimes.
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