{"id":120,"date":"2026-06-28T09:59:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T09:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=120"},"modified":"2026-06-28T09:59:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T09:59:42","slug":"ca-lawmakers-seek-to-ban-popular-handgun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"CA Lawmakers Seek To Ban Popular Handgun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/72\/720708_1_.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"CA Lawmakers Seek To Ban Popular Handgun\" title=\"CA Lawmakers Seek To Ban Popular Handgun\" \/><\/div><p><br \/>California&#8217;s new ban on Glock handguns takes effect on July 1. It is a new tactic for gun control advocates. Instead of trying to ban all handguns, a growing number of Democratic-led states are targeting one of the most commonly owned handguns in America &#8211; Glocks &#8211; on the grounds that criminals can easily convert them into machine guns. But even gangs rarely use these conversions, for a simple reason: They are extremely difficult to control and can be just as likely to injure the shooter as the intended target.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California&#8217;s new ban on Glock handguns takes effect on July 1. It is a new tactic for gun control advocates. Instead of trying to ban all handguns, a growing number of Democratic-led states are targeting one of the most commonly owned handguns in America &#8211; Glocks &#8211; on the grounds that criminals can easily convert&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.realclear.com\/images\/72\/720708_1_.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[123,125,121,124,122],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-ban","tag-handgun","tag-lawmakers","tag-popular","tag-seek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}