New York Lists Most Glocks, 26 Other Makers Under 2027 Convertible Pistol Ban

New York State Police have published a three-page convertible pistol list dated October 30, 2026, naming most Glock pistols and models from 26 other manufacturers as the handguns that licensed dealers and gunsmiths in the state may no longer sell, transfer or ship as merchandise from May 31, 2027. It sits on the agency’s publications page beside the quarterly crime gun reports.

The list carries out Chapter 55 of the Laws of 2026, Part C, Subpart A, the public protection section of the state budget that Governor Kathy Hochul signed on May 27, 2026 as bill S.9005-C. Hochul’s budget release described the measure as a bar on manufacturers and dealers selling pistols that can be quickly and easily converted into machine guns using common tools. The act took effect on the ninetieth day after signing, August 25, 2026, and directed the State Police superintendent to publish the list before that date and once a year afterward. Its first list came two months after that deadline.

Penal Law section 265.00(37) defines a convertible pistol as a semi-automatic pistol with a cruciform trigger bar that can be readily altered by hand or with common household tools so that a pistol converter turns it into a machine gun. The statute names the tools: screwdrivers, pipe wrenches, pliers, hacksaws, crowbars, electric drills or rotary tools, hammers, chisels, files and crescent wrenches. Hammer-fired pistols and striker-fired pistols without a cruciform trigger bar are excluded, and a notch or tab on the frame does not keep a pistol off the list if the material can be removed with those tools. A convertible pistol fitted with a converter is itself a machine gun under the amended definition.

The Glock entry reads “All Glock models, except V Series, Slimline Series, and Gen6 pistols.” The other 26 manufacturers are Alpha Foxtrot, Anderson Manufacturing, Bear Creek Arsenal, Black Rain Ordnance, Bul Armory, Cline Tactical/Tucson Customs, Combat Armory, Derya, Faxon, G Force Arms, Great Lakes Firearms & Ammunition, Grey Ghost Precision, Live Free Armory, Lone Wolf, Matrix Arms, Palmetto State Armory, Polymer 80, Rock Island Armory, Ruger, Sarsilmaz/SAR Arms, SCT Manufacturing, Shadow Systems, Stoeger, Tristar Arms, ZEV Technologies and ZRO Delta. Named models include the Palmetto State Armory Dagger series, the Ruger RXM, Shadow Systems’ CR920, DR920, MR920 and XR920 series, Polymer 80’s PFC9 and PFS9, Faxon’s FX-19 series, Stoeger’s STR series and ZEV’s OZ9 series.

The State Police say the list is not exhaustive and does not limit the statutory definition. A change in trade name, model designation, branding or stock-keeping unit alone does not take a pistol off the list. A redesigned or materially different variant is evaluated on its own characteristics. The agency will review and republish the list at least annually and may add pistols between reviews.

From May 31, 2027, a dealer or gunsmith who sells, transfers, disposes of, or transports or ships a convertible pistol as merchandise commits a class D felony under section 265.10(10), which the complaint in the pending federal challenge says carries up to seven years in prison. Section 265.20(f) exempts eight kinds of transaction: dispositions to the military, to police officers, to peace officers and to licensed dealers and gunsmiths, private-party sales conducted through a licensed dealer, a private owner’s transfer of a pistol lawfully owned before May 31, 2027 to a dealer or gunsmith, a dealer’s resale of a pistol whose last private owner lawfully held it before that date, and transfers within an immediate family of a pistol lawfully owned before the deadline. Owning a listed pistol remains lawful. In the agency’s words, “Inclusion on this list does not, by itself, make possession of the pistol unlawful.”

The Firing Pin, LLC, a licensed dealer in Genesee County, two individual buyers, the National Rifle Association, the Firearms Policy Coalition and the Second Amendment Foundation sued on August 13, 2026 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York, case 1:26-cv-01718. Their complaint calls section 265.10(10) a handgun ban on pistols in common use, says every factory Glock has a cruciform trigger bar, including the Gen 6 and V series pistols the State Police list now exempts, and asks the court to declare the section unconstitutional and enjoin it. Attorney General Letitia James, State Police Superintendent Steven G. James and the Wayne, Monroe and Genesee county district attorneys are the defendants. Monroe County District Attorney Brian P. Green filed an answer on September 11 denying the claims and asserting that the plaintiffs lack standing against him. The Firearms Policy Coalition’s case page listed no motion for a preliminary injunction as of November 9.

Dealers can sell the listed pistols without an exemption until May 31, 2027, and the State Police say the next scheduled review of the list comes within a year of October 30, 2026.