Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon
A court ruling had already determined that the 7 round magazine limit imposed by New York’s SAFE Act was unconstitutional. However, the ruling will likely face court challenges in other courts before it’s all said and done.
In the meantime, apparently the New York State Police have joined other law enforcement agencies in instructing their officers not to enforce the law as it currently stands.
The following press release is from the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association:
ALBANY, NY (03/26/2014)- The New York State Rifle & Pistol Association is pleased to announce that the Revised New York State Police NY SAFE Act Guide instructs its members not to enforce the 7-round magazine limit originally imposed by the hastily enacted measure.
“This is a direct result of the December 31, 2013 ruling in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York on litigation filed by NYSRPA,” said NYSRPA President Thomas King. The court ruled that the unlawful possession of certain ammunition feeding devices (fully loaded 10-round magazines) was unconstitutional.
“The New York State Police have followed the same sensible path taken by the New York Sheriffs’ Association and many local law-enforcement agencies in not enforcing a capricious, ill-conceived and unconstitutional portion of the NY SAFE Act,” stated King. “To date, NYSRPA has spent over $500,000 in litigation and we are prepared to fight the NY SAFE Act all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court where we are confident that many provisions of the law will ultimately be overturned.”
Citing the secretive and hurried process in which the NY SAFE Act became law, King said, “Lawmakers, mental health professionals, and New York’s gun owners were essentially ignored in the rush to enact this law. As a result, careful judicial scrutiny is uncovering some of the law’s flaws and unenforceability.
New York’s legal gun owners are among the most law-abiding citizens of this state and ultimately their civil rights will be upheld.”
Dan Cannon
Founder & Editor at GunsSaveLives.net
Dan has combined his love of gun rights and technology to create one of the most read websites dedicated to Second Amendment news. Dan’s writing has been featured on The Daily Caller and AmmoLand. When he’s not writing, Dan enjoys saltwater kayaking, SEC football and putting way too much money into his custom 10/22.
“instructing their officers not to enforce the law as it currently stands.”
No matter how it stands, they cant..and should never..because its Non-Constitutional in every possible form, it will always be an infringement
PERIOD!
Exactly!
BS…. you don’t “refuse to enforce” a law.
It can’t be enforced because the people don’t want it, and since that’s the case, the law should be immediately repealed.
Leaving the law on the books allows for arbitrary enforcement, meaning they’ll enforce it when it serves their purposes to do so, and that’s the definition of injustice. Either enforce the same laws against everyone, or get ’em off the books.
Since the Connecticut resistance they’ve decided to take a more subtle, and less publicized approach to gun-grabbing, but rest assured, it’s a process they’re never going to stop. They’ll use laws like this to charge people silently, and you’ll never hear about it in the press.
Patriots must NOT LET THEIR GUARD DOWN because of a perceived success in Connecticut. They’re gong to keep coming, but now they’ll move to a quieter, and less publicized tactic that tries to accomplish the same goal.