{"id":100921,"date":"2024-03-22T20:55:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T01:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=100921"},"modified":"2024-03-22T20:55:25","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T01:55:25","slug":"100921","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=100921","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.firearmspolicy.org\/fpc-and-fpcaf-file-brief-in-support-of-lawsuit-challenging-nyc-long-gun-license-requirements\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">FPC and FPCAF File Brief in Support of Lawsuit Challenging NYC Long Gun License Requirements<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW YORK\u00a0<\/strong>(March 21,\u00a02024) \u2013 Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and FPC Action Foundation (FPCAF) announced the filing of an important brief\u00a0with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Plaintiff-Appellee Joseph Srour in\u00a0<em>Srour v. New York City<\/em>, which challenges New York City\u2019s shotgun and rifle licensing requirements. The brief can be viewed at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fpclegal.org\/\">FPCLegal.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no historical tradition of requiring a license to possess a firearm,\u201d argues the brief. \u201cThe only historical laws requiring a license to possess a firearm applied to persons without recognized rights at the time, namely African Americans and American Indians. These repugnant laws cannot form the historical tradition necessary for the government to satisfy its burden for several reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew York City continues the existing trend of authoritarian governments relying on blatantly racist and discriminatory laws in an attempt to justify their modern gun control efforts,\u201d said Cody J. Wisniewski, FPC Action Foundation\u2019s Vice President and General Counsel, and counsel for FPC. \u201cIn reality, there is no historical basis for New York City\u2019s modern requirement that individuals acquire a license merely to possess firearms. As such, its law is blatantly unconstitutional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FPC and FPCAF File Brief in Support of Lawsuit Challenging NYC Long Gun License Requirements NEW YORK\u00a0(March 21,\u00a02024) \u2013 Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) and FPC Action Foundation (FPCAF) announced the filing of an important brief\u00a0with the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in support of Plaintiff-Appellee Joseph Srour in\u00a0Srour v. New York City, which challenges &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=100921\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courts","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100922,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100921\/revisions\/100922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}