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Long guns for New Yorker

MANHATTAN (CN) — The Second Circuit vacated a lower court’s dismissal of a Bronx man’s Second Amendment claims against New York City, whose police turned down his license application to keep a rifle or shotgun at his residence for protection purposes. The rejection had been affirmed because the man was charged, but never convicted, for domestic violence episodes, but this standard was thrown out by the Supreme Court this year.

Read the ruling here.

Categories / Appeals, Briefs, Civil Rights

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