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Knight v. City of New York (1:22-cv-10755) (NYPD) Although Knight contends that there is no “need for two licenses” nothing in Bruen, Heller, or McDonald prevent the City from requiring gun owners to obtain multiple licenses, one for the home and one to carry in public, so long as the licensing...

NYPD License Division: "The Ninety Day Waiting Period simply regulates the frequency in which licensees may acquire firearms after their first purchase. Since the rule does not leave an ordinary, law-abiding citizen without the ability to possess a firearm for self-defense, it does not implicate...

August 19, 2022 - Emergency rule that provides guidance to gun licenses applicants Please see the attached emergency rule that provides guidance to gun licenses applicants in light of the Supreme Court decision in N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n v. Bruen, 142 S. Ct. 2111 (2022) and recent...

Cavalier Knight lives in New York City. He currently holds an FFL issued by the ATF and has his Class III endorsement. Knight’s business, as noted in his own words on his webpage, specializes “in providing quality firearms and tactical ballistic protection.” The items Knight mostly focuses on...

New York State Court of Appeals CPLR 5601[1] - Substantial Constitutional Question Does “Title 38 - R.C.N.Y.” and/or “NYC Administrative Code;” discriminate against “interstate commerce;” and violate “Title 42 - U.S.C. § 1983;” by allowing “FFL 01s” with a “brick & mortar” store to only sell...

I apologize for the long post. 01. Greetings I am an FFL 01 in the City of New York. The NYPD License Division is prohibiting FFL 01s from selling any firearms at "gun shows," "mail-order" or via "interstate (e)commerce" by denying FFL 01s the "Carry Business License" required to "handle and/or...

New York, NY… April 2, 2020 – Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors announced today that its client, the National Rifle Association of America (“NRA”), filed suit against New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, the New York State Department of Economic Development, and New York State Department of Economic...

[UPDATE: The New York State Rifle and Pistol Association responded to the city’s letter, calling it “both premature and procedurally improper.” On July 8, the Supreme Court’s electronic docket indicated that the letter had not been accepted for filing.] In January, the Supreme Court agreed to...

The Supreme Court should dismiss a challenge to New York City’s gun transportation ban because a new ordinance will moot the case, city lawyers told the justices Wednesday. The ordinance and a newly enacted state law will give the plaintiffs who challenged the transportation ban everything they...

HARRISBURG, PA –-(Ammoland.com)- Today, the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court issued a significant 53-page majority opinion in the criminal appeal of Commonwealth v. Hicks. Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and Firearms Policy Foundation (FPF) filed an important coalition amicus brief cited by the...

The city, however, isn’t leaving all of its gun control eggs in one legal basket. They like the way their law works to restrict gun owners and they’ve asked the state of New York to enact a new law that would allow it to maintain the same level of restriction on transporting a handgun even if...

In a new interview, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban proposed an “update” to the Second Amendment that would protect the rights of gun owners and bolster the authority of states to dictate firearm policy within their borders. “I would go to change the Second Amendment in ways that people...

Sen Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) recently came out with a proposal to "end gun violence." In her plan, she called for the typical points ant-gunners love to cling to. She wants to establish universal background checks; create a federal law against trafficking guns; reestablish an assault weapons...

New York City decided to change a portion of its gun laws related to the transport of firearms just a few months after the Supreme Court decided to review a lawsuit scrutinizing the city’s gun control laws. Licensed gun owners in New York City will soon be able to legally transport their...

Greetings, I wanted to post a quick video that I did with NRATV's Kerry Picket in September of 2018. Regarding my issues with the NYPD License Division as an FFL 01 in New York City. I was unable to embed the video so I included a link. Thank you. The best part is there is no State or Federal...

In Norwich talking about the "SAFE Act". The act that turns average New Yorkers into criminals. How so? One way is having ammo in the same bag as your gun. That's considered loaded and you will be going to jail. Even worse, the law is confusing and discourages New Yorkers from working with law...

09.04.2018 - New York City prohibits its residents from possessing a handgun without a license, and the only license the City makes available to most residents allows its holder to possess her handgun only in her home or en route to one of seven shooting ranges within the city. The City thus...

The New York City Police Department’s gun licensing division according to a former employee with knowledge of the office pulled back on the number of carry permits the division issues and found more reasons to deny applicants their gun permits. Following the eruption of a bribery and corruption...

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Thursday denied a petition for a hearing from the full court after a three-judge panel declared portions of Washington, D.C.'s gun-carry law unconstitutional in July. "D.C. Circuit denies en banc petition in Wrenn v. D.C.!" Alan...

(Sep. 23, 2017) — As was recently reported by TPATH, a pro se lawsuit challenging New Jersey’s restrictive gun statutes filed more than two years ago in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey has received a docket number from the U.S. Supreme Court. An extensive compilation of...

A former New York City police lieutenant, two former police officers and a lawyer who once worked as a prosecutor were arrested in a federal gun licensing probe Tuesday as authorities described a scam in which police employees traded speedy handling of gun permits for paid vacations, jewelry...

Rogelio Serna is livid today, and he has every right to be. A paranoid woman and her husband in Bakersfield (CA) SWATted his 73-year-old father to death, falsely reporting to 911 that Francisco Serna, a man in the early stages of dementia, was armed with a revolver. Thank you, California...

How do you get conservative lawmakers to agree to add a protected class to an employment discrimination law? Focus on protecting on gun ownership, apparently. Believe it or not, the right to conceal carry is about to join race, sex, age, religion, national origin and disability as a class...

A Republican congressman is prepared to introduce national concealed carry legislation in the next Congress after Donald Trump is sworn in as president. North Carolina Republican Rep. Richard Hudson introduced a similar bill in February 2015, H.R. 986. Now known as the Concealed Carry...

With President-elect Trump’s victory firmly in the bag, the NRA has begun work on helping craft gun-friendly legislation that will make owning and carrying a gun far easier for the millions of gun owners across the country. According to the Wall Street Journal, at the top of the list is a...

Director Stephanie Soechtig and Producer Katie Couric were caught red-handed fabricating gun owner responses in their anti-gun propaganda film, Under the Gun, leading member of the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VDCL) to file a $12 million dollar defamation lawsuit. Couric’s lawyers are now...

The federal trial of a Kansas man for manufacturing and selling firearms and silencers without a federal license could very well turn out to be the pivotal case that not only challenges the constitutionality of the National Firearms Act of 1934, but also every federal firearms law ever passed in...

The District of Columbia on November 17, 2016, presented Arsenal Attorneys with a check in the amount of $94,121.79, representing payment of attorneys’ fees and costs for the firm's successful challenge to DC’s ban on Tasers and stun guns. Arsenal Attorneys, on behalf of three District of...

Senator John McCain called Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) a couple of “wacko birds” after they conducted a filibuster of CIA Director John Brennan’s drone policy. The left-wing Nation magazine has expressed alarm at the prospect that Cruz might become attorney general. Senator...

Fight the Noise is a movement to regain our Voice. To exercise our right to protect our hearing and silence the sound. To be responsible gun owners and be treated as such. We want law*abiding citizens to have the ability to purchase and own silencers without being subjected to excessive wait...

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, just named the ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, warned Wednesday that the group “will pay very close attention to proposed nominees” from President-elect Donald Trump. In a statement on her election to the post, Feinstein described Merrick...

A Texas man who pulled a rifle on four teens in a car and held them at gunpoint because he thought they looked suspicious seems surprised that he’s being charged. A Converse man who used his AR-15 rifle to detain four men he thought were going to burglarize his neighbor’s home last month now...

A police officer who is the son of Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association President Pat Lynch was placed on modified duty for disciplinary reasons Tuesday. Sources told CBS2 that NYPD Officer Kevin Lynch was put on modified duty for “failure to make a proper notification regarding an accidental...

A Manhattan doctor accused of threatening to fatally shoot his social-circuit wife is now suing the NYPD to get back his gun permit — and his 18 registered pistols. Dr. Peter Kaplan, a child psychologist affiliated with NYU Langone Medical Center, had warned his estranged fashion-designer wife...

During a November 13 interview on 60 Minutes, President-elect Donald Trump reminding Americans that he will not sit back and allow anti-gunners to dice up the Second Amendment. The comments on the Second Amendment came amid a discussion about Supreme Court justice nominations. Leslie Stahl...

A plan by Sonoma County Sheriff Steve Freitas to require a psychological evaluation for all those seeking permission to carry a concealed firearm has stalled amid opposition from gun rights groups over the cost to applicants. The proposal from Freitas needs approval from the Board of...

Released on his website, Trump has outlined the route he wants to take in regards to the 2nd Amendment, personal protection and concealed carry. Let’s take a look at his points below, and leave a few comments to discuss: Defend the Second Amendment of our Constitution. The right of the people...

A businessman at the center of the sweeping federal corruption probe of the NYPD accepted a plea deal Thursday. Alex "Shaya" Lichtenstein pleaded guilty to two counts of bribing officers in the NYPD's licensing division to expedite handgun permits between 2013 and up until this summer. Under...

If Donald Trump is not elected to be president, this type of Supreme Court Justice will cease to exist. Instead we’ll have snarky little activists who have no respect for the construction of the Constitution and will be focused and preoccupied with forming it as “a living document” into a...

The Pentagon has spent at least $58 billion over the past two decades on weapons systems that seemed like a good idea at the time, but never made it off the ground, or even off the drawing board. The eye-popping figure is buried in a Pentagon report released this week from Undersecretary of...

On Second Amendment issues, Mrs. Long argued the election of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary R. Clinton, along with Sen. Schumer potentially becoming Senate majority leader, would essentially destroy the right to bear arms. “If both of those things happen, it’s almost guaranteed to be...

SAIPAN – U.S. Navy veteran David J. Radich and his wife received payment for legal fees and expenses after prevailing in a lawsuit that challenged the constitutionality of the CNMI's gun control law. Marianas Pacific Law LLC, the law firm representing the Radiches, filed on Oct. 14 at the U.S...

The NYPD has confiscated thousands of guns across the five boroughs and it wants to make sure those weapons don't get back on city streets. NY1 Criminal Justice Reporter Dean Meminger has an exclusive report about the police department's plans for those guns. The question is what does really...

Senate Democrats may enact the nuclear option for Supreme Court nominees next year if the party wins both the presidency and control of the Senate. Sen. Harry Reid, the chamber's minority leader who will soon be retired, told Talking Points Memo he has "set the Senate" to fight back against any...

Nearly 75 percent of guns used to commit crimes and recovered by New York State law enforcement come from out of state, according to a new report by the state’s attorney general’s office. The study, released Tuesday, also found that close to 90 percent of all handguns used in crimes and...

A high-ranking Brooklyn cop has been stripped of his badge and gun over ties to a key figure in an alleged $1 million NYPD bribery scheme, The Post has learned. Lt. Michael Andreano of the 66th Precinct in Boro Park was put on desk duty as part of the wide-ranging corruption probe that has...

On October 22 The Telegraph published a map showing the U.S. leads the world in private firearm ownership but does not even crack the Top 10 when it comes to firearm-related deaths. According to the Telegraph, the countries with highest per-capita gun ownership are: USA – 112.6 guns per 100...

Clinton and Trump have taken positions on several proposals relating to gun rights and regulation, including a “no-buy” list for terrorism suspects, background checks for buyers, and assault weapon bans. There is also a great deal of interest in how the fundamental right of gun ownership will be...

An apparent gun control supporter was enraged to see a (poorly) concealed handgun on another man one afternoon last week in Overland Park, Kansas, and apparently lost his sanity. A 59-year-old Overland Park man was charged Thursday with shooting another man in the leg after taking a gun away...