Appeals court shoots down SAFE-Act challenge

By Joseph Spector

A state appeals court today rejected an attempt by gun-rights groups to block implementation of New York’s gun-control law.

Lead Plaintiff Robert Schulz and more than 1,000 plaintiffs from around the state sought an injunction in March against the SAFE-Act, the gun-control law adopted by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature in January.

A Supreme Court judge in March denied the injunction, and a state Appellate Court today in Albany upheld the ruling. The groups could ask the Court of Appeals, the state’s highest court, to hear the case, but the court is not required to take it.

Schulz contended that the law was unconstitutional because it was hastily passed by the Legislature through a message of necessity—a move by a governor that allows a vote on a bill without a three-day waiting period.

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