A trio of Second Amendment rights organizations filed a lawsuit Monday in San Diego federal court challenging a new state law that Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Friday that bans the sale of semi-automatic handguns that can be easily converted into submachine guns with the use of a device commonly known as a “Glock switch.”

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More than half the states in the U.S., including California, already prohibit the use of Glock switches, but the new California law, which is set to go into effect July 1 of next year, takes things a step further by banning any semi-automatic handgun with a specific type of trigger bar that allows it to be easily converted into a fully automatic pistol.

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