Post by "DoubleAction" on Mar 11, 2013 21:18:53 GMT -5
ALBANY — The state Attorney General's Office moved Monday to dismiss an injunction filed by a gun-rights group that would seek to void New York's new gun-control law.
The state's filings says the NY-SAFE Act was passed in response to mass shootings in December in Newtown, Conn., and Webster, Monroe County. The law toughens reporting requirements for gun owners, expands an assault-weapons ban and lowers the number of bullets in a magazine from 10 to seven.
“For starters, Governor Cuomo violated Article III, Section 14 of the New York Constitution by misstating the facts in his message of necessity in order to ram the NY SAFE Act through the Senate and Assembly in a matter of hours. There was no legitimate need for speed,” Schulz said in a statement last month.
Read More :
www.stargazette.com/article/20130311/NEWS10/303110054/NY-moves-toss-lawsuit-against-gun-control-law
statepolitics.lohudblogs.com/2013/03/11/read-ny-moves-to-toss-lawsuit-against-gun-control-law/
The state's filings says the NY-SAFE Act was passed in response to mass shootings in December in Newtown, Conn., and Webster, Monroe County. The law toughens reporting requirements for gun owners, expands an assault-weapons ban and lowers the number of bullets in a magazine from 10 to seven.
“For starters, Governor Cuomo violated Article III, Section 14 of the New York Constitution by misstating the facts in his message of necessity in order to ram the NY SAFE Act through the Senate and Assembly in a matter of hours. There was no legitimate need for speed,” Schulz said in a statement last month.
Read More :
www.stargazette.com/article/20130311/NEWS10/303110054/NY-moves-toss-lawsuit-against-gun-control-law
statepolitics.lohudblogs.com/2013/03/11/read-ny-moves-to-toss-lawsuit-against-gun-control-law/