Judge Kari A. Dooley put the Second Amendment ahead of a Connecticut statute. Sitting in the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, she granted a preliminary injunction against Public Act 26-41 one day before the law took effect. The order stops enforcement of the state's convertible-pistol prohibition—a Glock-style pistol sales ban—while the federal challenge proceeds.
Public Act 26-41 is a sales ban. Connecticut targeted Glock-style pistols under the convertible-pistol label and set a date for the prohibition to become enforceable. Judge Dooley issued the injunction on the eve of that date. The ban did not get a day of operation. Retailers and buyers were not forced to treat those pistols as newly illegal to sell under the act.
The court found Connecticut's Glock-style pistol sales ban likely unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. That is the basis for the preliminary injunction. Likelihood of a constitutional violation is enough, at this stage, to halt a state firearms restriction. Public Act 26-41 is a statute. The Second Amendment is supreme. When the two conflict, the statute yields.
Glock won the temporary block. The case is docketed as 3:26-cv-01525. The injunction is preliminary. It does not finally invalidate the act. It pauses the convertible-pistol prohibition so the parties can litigate the Second Amendment claim without the ban in force. Enforcement is stopped. The docket remains open.
Connecticut's restriction depended on recharacterizing Glock-style pistols as convertible and then forbidding their sale. A change in legislative vocabulary does not strip a pistol of constitutional protection. Judge Dooley did not accept the ban as a given. She measured it against the Second Amendment and found it likely fails.
The timing of the order is the difference between a paper restriction and a live one. An injunction one day before the effective date keeps Public Act 26-41 from setting a new commercial reality. No compliance period. No enforcement window. The convertible-pistol prohibition is on hold from the start.
The challenge now goes forward under that injunction. Connecticut can defend Public Act 26-41 in court. It cannot enforce the Glock-style pistol sales ban while Judge Dooley's order stands. Federal judges take an oath to the Constitution, not to a state legislature. The Second Amendment remains the rule. The merits will decide whether the ban ever takes effect. Until then, the right—not the statute—controls.
References
- https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-ctd-3_26-cv-01525/pdf/USCOURTS-ctd-3_26-cv-01525-0.pdf
- https://www.ammoland.com/2026/10/connecticut-glock-sales-ban-blocked/
- https://www.courthousenews.com/glock-wins-temporary-block-on-connecticuts-convertible-pistol-ban
- https://www.guns.com/news/2026/10/01/judge-puts-the-brakes-on-connecticut-glock-ban
- https://thereload.com/federal-judge-temporarily-blocks-connecticut-glock-ban/