{"id":95126,"date":"2023-08-12T16:25:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T21:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=95126"},"modified":"2023-08-12T16:25:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T21:25:13","slug":"95126","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=95126","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/business\/article\/orthodox-jewish-camp-schoharie-county-sues-allow-18289788.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Orthodox Jewish camp in Schoharie County sues to keep its guns in place<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Administrators at TheZone summer camp have concealed-carry permits and are requesting an injunction to a new state law<\/em><\/p>\n<p>GILBOA \u2014 New York\u2019s gun rights activists are a diverse lot, ranging from rural hunters and Second Amendment supporters to Black pastors in urban churches who say they want to protect their flocks from armed white supremacists.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the operators of an Orthodox Jewish summer camp have joined the gun rights debate, with a lawsuit seeking an injunction that, despite a contested state law, would let them continue to be armed for self-defense.<\/p>\n<div id=\"paywall\" class=\"content-wrapper\">\n<p>Eliyohu Mintz, CEO of TheZone summer camp, and camp Administrator Eric Schwartz cited numerous anti-Semitic threats as a reason they should be allowed to continue to carry concealed weapons despite a recent tightening of state gun control laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNew York State\u2019s fabrication of \u2018gun free\u2019 zones through the enactment of the Concealed Carry Improvement Act in 2022 calculatedly leaves our most vulnerable people\u00a0\u2014 children\u00a0\u2014 defenseless and at the mercy of violent and predatory evildoers,\u201d reads a legal action seeking an injunction against the new rule.<\/p>\n<p>Mintz and Schwartz, who both have concealed-carry gun licenses, have gone to Federal Northern District Court seeking permission to keep carrying their guns at the summer camp.<\/p>\n<p>In their injunction request, they name\u00a0Schoharie County District Attorney Susan Mallery; Sheriff Ronald Stevens and Steven Nigrelli, the acting State Police superintendent, as defendants.<\/p>\n<section class=\"article--content-embed fullwidth        \" aria-label=\"Advertisement Video - Article continues below this ad\"><a title=\"View Oorah Gun Case on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/664417175\/Oorah-Gun-Case#from_embed\">Oorah Gun Case<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a title=\"View rkarlin's profile on Scribd\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/user\/13218618\/rkarlin#from_embed\">rkarlin<\/a>\u00a0on Scribd<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orthodox Jewish camp in Schoharie County sues to keep its guns in place Administrators at TheZone summer camp have concealed-carry permits and are requesting an injunction to a new state law GILBOA \u2014 New York\u2019s gun rights activists are a diverse lot, ranging from rural hunters and Second Amendment supporters to Black pastors in urban &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=95126\" 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":[8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95126","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=95126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95127,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95126\/revisions\/95127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}