A New York State Supreme Court Justice ruled last week that New York’s Extreme Risk Protection Order laws, often called Red Flag laws are unconstitutional and declined to issue an Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO). As we have written in the past, extreme risk protections have become very popular in…
Just about one week after the United States Supreme Court delivered its ground breaking decision in Bruen affirming the Constitutionally protected right to carry a gun in public and addressing the sanctity of the Second Amendment, Governor Hochul and the New York State Legislature convened an extraordinary legislative session and…
As we have discussed in the past often in New York criminal cases suppression of the evidence may be your best (or only defense. As has been widely reported in the media, all charges were recently dismissed against one of our clients after the Court granted our motion to controvert…
ANY OTHER WEAPONS We have written in the past extensively about the Mossberg Shockwave, Remington Tac-14 and AR-15 others. The basic principle involves a weapon that is not designed to be fired from the shoulder so that it cannot be legally considered to be a rifle or shotgun and is…
EXPANSION OF RED FLAG LAWS On June 6, 2022 Governor Kathy Hochul signed an expansion of New York’s already problematic red flag laws giving the right to file Extreme Risk Protection Petitions to a wide range of health care workers. The list of healthcare workers includes doctors, nurses, social workers,…
New York’s New Type of License – Semi Automatic Rifles Among the new package of laws that were signed into law by Governor Kathy Hochul was the requirement to obtain a license before purchasing or acquiring a new semiautomatic rifle (other than an “assault rifle“). The intention seems to have…
On June 6, 2022, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed 10 new gun control measures into law. These laws were hurriedly written and passed and appear to be a knee jerk reaction to the tragedies in Uvalde and Buffalo but will have a heavy impact on the New York Second…
As New York firearms attorneys we reported in our December 28, 2021 blog about the new law regulating 80 percent lower receivers in New York, the law allows for a six month grace period. However as has been reported in the news lately, the term “Ghost Gun” is the new…
New York criminal law has a large number of crimes related to illegal gambling on the books. Beginning January 8, 2022, the New York gaming commission gave their approval to four operators to start taking online bets from anywhere in the State including from a person’s own living room a…
As New York gun rights attorneys we are carefully monitoring an increasing regulatory environment of everything related to firearms and an increasing number of gun owners who are receiving letters from law enforcement. Recently we were consulted by a person who received a letter from the Federal Bureau of…