The California Department of Justice placed a new Glock model on the state’s approved handgun roster on Sept. 29, reopening a path to legal sales only months after lawmakers blocked retailers from offering new Glock pistols.
Assembly Bill 1127 took effect July 1 and barred retailers from selling new Glock pistols. The Glock 43X CA listing arrived roughly three months later, and retailers moved quickly to take orders.
The New York Post reported the roster addition and the retail response as the state’s Glock restrictions also face a federal lawsuit. The practical stakes are clear for gun owners and dealers: a compact design long sold elsewhere is now cleared for California’s tightly controlled market.
California authorities targeted Glock handguns and similar designs under AB 1127. They said the guns could be readily converted into fully automatic machine guns under state law with a small device known as a “Glock switch.”
That conversion concern drove the sales ban on new Glock pistols. The statute left retailers unable to move new Glock inventory once the July 1 effective date hit.
The 43X CA is a California version of a compact Glock design sold in other states since 2019. The model had never previously been available in California.
Glock has not released details about the new pistol. The company made no public announcement of the roster addition.
The California Department of Justice listing describes a 9mm handgun with a 3.41-inch barrel, a 10-round capacity, and a steel-and-polymer frame. It also carries the safety features California requires.
Retailers say the handgun includes a loaded chamber indicator and a mechanism that engages a safety when the magazine is removed. Those features track the state’s mandatory checklist for roster approval.
Investigators and the public still lack a full public breakdown from Glock on any engineering changes beyond the roster specs and retailer descriptions. No primary roster text with an extended approval rationale has been released in the available account.
Turners Outdoorsman had already started accepting pre-orders by Oct. 1. The retailer listed the pistol for $600 and warned that price and specifications could change.
Turners Outdoorsman told customers the roster status and the expected delivery window in plain terms.
"This firearm has been added to the California Handgun Roster, and we currently anticipate receiving our first shipments by December,"
The same retailer added a short follow-up on remaining product details.
"More information and specifications are coming in the next two weeks."
First shipments are expected in December under that timeline. Buyers placing early orders face the usual California transfer rules once the guns arrive, including the roster-compliant configuration already on the books.
The US Department of Justice has sued California over AB 1127. Federal lawyers argue that the law requiring the Glock redesign violates the Second Amendment.
The roster addition lands while that challenge is pending. The suit filing date and full case caption have not been detailed in the same account, yet the core claim is clear: the redesign mandate itself is under constitutional attack.
California lawmakers and state authorities framed AB 1127 as a response to conversion risk. The US Department of Justice frames the same statute as an unlawful burden on protected arms.
Courts will have to sort those competing claims. Until then, the DOJ roster controls what retailers may legally sell inside the state.
California maintains an approved handgun roster run through the state Department of Justice. A model must clear that list before ordinary retail sales can proceed under the state’s handgun rules.
AB 1127 layered a specific bar on new Glock pistols atop that system. The Sept. 29 addition of the Glock 43X CA shows a California-marked variant clearing the roster after the ban took hold.
The listing confirms caliber, barrel length, capacity, frame materials, and required safeties. It does not publicly spell out every internal difference from earlier Glock patterns barred for new sales.
Retailers describe the loaded chamber indicator and the magazine-removal safety engagement. Those points match what California demands for roster guns.
In 2019, the underlying compact Glock design began selling in other states. California shoppers could not buy that configuration through normal retail channels before the new CA-marked entry.
On July 1, AB 1127 took effect and stopped retailers from selling new Glock pistols. On Sept. 29, the California Department of Justice added the Glock 43X CA to the roster.
By Oct. 1, Turners Outdoorsman was taking pre-orders at a $600 list price. December remains the expected window for first shipments according to that retailer.
Glock’s silence leaves dealers and buyers working from the DOJ specs and store notices. Price and final published specifications may still shift before guns reach the counter.
Authorities have not publicly confirmed the full technical package that distinguishes the 43X CA from prior Glocks covered by the sales bar. Glock has not issued a detailed public description of the model.
No public results have been released about the precise engineering steps, if any, submitted for roster review beyond the published listing facts. Investigators and consumers will need those details if they want a complete comparison to earlier designs.
The US Department of Justice lawsuit continues in the background. Its filing date and docket identifiers are not set out in the same reporting package, yet the Second Amendment argument is on the record.
Named individual legislators, DOJ officials, or Glock executives do not appear with on-the-record quotes in the available account. Organizational actors drive the public record so far: the state DOJ, Glock, Turners Outdoorsman, California lawmakers, and the federal Justice Department.
For dealers, roster status is the gate. Once a handgun sits on the California Department of Justice list with the required safeties, compliant transfers can move forward under state law.
For buyers, the 10-round capacity and mandated safety devices define the legal configuration. The $600 pre-order figure offers an early price signal, subject to change as Turners warned.
The compact size and 3.41-inch barrel place the gun in a popular defensive category already familiar outside California since 2019. Inside the state, the CA suffix and roster line are what matter for lawful sale.
AB 1127 still restricts new Glock pistols that fall under its terms. The 43X CA listing shows one path through the roster after that restriction took effect.
Federal judges will decide whether the redesign demand survives Second Amendment review. State roster administrators will keep deciding which specific models clear California’s checklist.
Those two tracks now run at the same time. Retail pre-orders show demand did not disappear when the July ban hit; it waited on a compliant listing.
When shipments arrive in December, dealers will process transfers under existing California rules. Buyers will receive the roster-listed configuration with the safety features already described.
Until Glock publishes fuller specifications, the DOJ listing and retailer notices remain the clearest public description of the gun California has approved.
Roster games and redesign mandates do not erase the constitutional baseline. When lawmakers choke off common handguns and federal lawyers have to sue to reopen the lane, the rule of law and the right to keep arms both sit in the dock.
