Ruger is the Next Target

The gun-ban groups and politicians have moved their sights to Sturm, Ruger & Co., a publicly traded firearm manufacturing company.

They feel emboldened by perceived success with lawfare aimed at Glock, which recently announced it is discontinuing almost all its current models and that, instead, the Austrian pistol maker will begin shipping its new V series pistols.

Lawfare directed at Glock has been going on for some time. The excuse for this has been that some enterprising criminals have figured out how to illegally modify certain Glock models, which, if they work, can make some of these semi-automatic pistols into illegal machine guns.

This lawfare evolved into actual law when California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed Assembly Bill 1127, which is scheduled to take effect on July 1, 2026. Specifically, it provides that licensed firearms dealers "shall not sell, offer for sale, exchange, give, transfer, or deliver any semiautomatic machinegun-convertible pistol." …