Not so fast, pardner. Connecticut is going to ban sales of many striker-fired handguns next month, unless the NSSF lawsuit prevails. [Zac K.] What a year it’s been on the legal front for the gun industry—basically, a game of whack-a-mole, with the hoplophobes popping up with new anti-gun laws as quickly as the shooting industry can shoot down the old ones. We see this happening again in Connecticut now, where the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF—the industry body that represents the gun industry) is suing the state over its so-called “striker-fired” ban on pistols with cruciform triggers. Classic scatterguns @ TFB:Fudd Friday: Ithaca Is America's Old-School Pump Gun Manufacturer TFB Armorer's Bench: Understanding Auto-5 Friction Ring Orientation Fudd Friday: Winchester 1911 SL - Was the "Widowmaker" Really Deadly? The Greatest Blunder In Commercial Firearms History How’d we get here?Some background—the state of Connecticut banned the sale of pistols with cruciform triggers earlier in 2026, when Governor Ned Lamont signed H.B. 5043 into law. The idea behind this bill is to stop the sale of pistols that can be converted from semi-auto to full-auto with the installation of drop-in parts by replacing the slide backplate.This means that pistols from Glock and many other popular manufacturers are no longer legal to sell in Connecticut, and the NSSF ain’t got no time for that. From their PR about their lawsuit:“Connecticut's law targeting "convertible pistols" infringes on the right of citizens to purchase the most-popular-selling handguns that are used for self-defense and renowned for their reliability. Connecticut is unconstitutionally infringing on Second Amendment rights while ignoring criminals who violate federal and state law to illegally modify these handguns to attach a "machinegun conversion device," or MCD, which has long been illegal to both possess or to attach to a firearm outside of strict federal licensing. The firearm industry warns gun owners against illegal modifications that override intentional semiautomatic firearm engineering designs. Illegally modifying a firearm to enable automatic fire is a federal crime.” The NSSF says criminals won’t follow gun laws, and it’s not law-abiding citizens who are the problem. [Zac K.] Lawrence G. Keane, the NSSF’s Senior VP and General Counsel, says the problem is that the law targets good guys, not bad guys. In their statement, he didn’t pussyfoot around the problem as he sees it:“Connecticut's elected officials pander to gun control donors and antigun special interests to scapegoat the industry and ban an entire class of ordinary firearms, which the U.S. Supreme Court's Heller decision clearly holds violates the U.S. Constitution. Governor Lamont knew this yet didn't hesitate to trample on the Second Amendment." The NSSF wants to remind gun owners that it’s highly illegal to turn a semi-auto into a full-auto. [Zac K.] Connecticut’s proposed ban comes into place on October 1, 2026. The NSSF has filed for a preliminary injunction that will stop the law from being enforced, or a restraining order that stops HB 5034 from taking effect until the preliminary injunction is decided on. And they’d also like to remind gun owners that “Modifying a firearm by adding an illegal device that overrides the original, intended function or design to render a semiautomatic firearm into an automatic firearm is a felony. That includes importing, possessing, making or selling an MCD. It's a violation of the National Firearms Act (NFA) and carries a prison sentence of up to 10 years and up to $250,000 in fines.” Their words, not ours!