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The "California Edition" is an LWS 32 that has been modified to incorporate a trigger blocking manually operated safety that fulfills the manual safety requirements of the State of California. Prerequisite to a pistol being subjected to the laboratory drop tests and functional reliability tests, which a pistol must pass in order to be approved for sale in California, the pistol must have a manual safety. The guideline for a manual safety is that it must be of a type that qualifies as a manually operated safety device under the BATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms) import guidelines. The trigger block safety (Patent No. 6,615,529) incorporated in the "California Edition" LWS32 satisfies this California requirement - hence the designation "California Edition" is stamped on the slides of this version of the LWS 32 pistol that has been approved for sale in the State of California. More detailed write up on Seecamp's website here. http://www.seecamp.com/california.htm

Steven, the only difference is the redesigned trigger blocking manually operated safety. California requires a Manual Safety for a handgun to be compliant which the regular version of this pistol does not have. Cheers and you and yours stay safe! [Operational Details of how the Trigger Safety works] : The "California Edition" trigger blocking safety functions along the same basic principal as the magazine safety. Both block the trigger, and both restrict slide movement. The manual safety works as follows: Pushing the safety bar to the right puts the safety in the on position, while pushing it to the left puts it in the off position. A leaf spring resiliently engages the safety bar producing a drag on the bar so that it remains in the position to which it is moved.