District Attorney on New York's Long Island bans prosecutors from owning guns

[BSA1]

Since for all practical purposes they prohibit everybody else from having handguns I see no reason they shouldn't have to live under the same rules.

+1!

 

[danez71]

This has been reversed.

The New York prosecutor who barred her employees from owning legal guns – even at home – has relented after a torrent of criticism that her policy was unconstitutional and could put her subordinates’ lives in danger.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...n-for-employees-after-taking-fire-from-legal/

 

[Speedo66]

See post 19.

 

[dh1633pm]

Once the light was shined on the foolish, it was corrected. Good.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

Interesting. Other DAs in other NYS counties said they not only would not interfere with ADAs who chose to go legally armed at work, but would help those who chose to do so get training.

The way the Nassau County application read, if you were an ADA you could not only not carry on the job, but ADAs could not even own a handgun for non-defensive, recreational use.

 

[heyjoe]

it was put into effect by Kathleen Rice who was the previous District Attorney. She is rabidly anti gun. She ordered several raids on gun stores in which store owners and employees were arrested. in both the series of raids all charges were eventually either dropped or prosecuted unsuccessfully. This lead to large lawsuits against nassau county by the gun store owners, which were successful. She is now in the House of Representatives and has very large ambitions.