NSSF Sues Connecticut Over Trigger Ban

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The Connecticut legislature tried to write a law targeting auto-sear switches and apparently ended up describing the trigger geometry on half the handguns in every gun case in the country.

"The legal definition of 'cruciform trigger' describes the cross-shaped trigger shoe and housing pin found on nearly every modern striker-fired handgun—not just the ones lawmakers actually had in mind."

If you carry a Glock, an M&P, a Hellcat, or basically any modern striker-fired pistol, Connecticut just wrote a law that technically bans your gun. That's not a slippery slope argument — that's the actual text of the statute.

"This isn't really about machine gun conversion devices at all, according to NSSF's filing — it's a design-feature ban dressed up as a public-safety measure, similar to how some states have tried to define away entire categories of rifles through cosmetic feature tests rather than function."

We've watched this playbook run on rifles for years — ban the pistol grip, the thumbhole stock, the adjustable length of pull — none of which changes how the rifle fires. Now they're running the same script on handguns, using trigger geometry instead of a folding stock. Different gun, same approach.

The dealers caught in the middle of this are in a rough spot. You yank your striker-fired inventory, eat the lost sales for however long this takes in court, then restock when the injunction holds — if it holds. That's a brutal position to be in when you're a small shop running tight margins.

Anyone in Connecticut or dealing with suppliers that ship there — are you already seeing this affect availability or orders, or is everyone waiting to see what the judge does?

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Read the full article in The Handbook → | By Steve Duskett