New York Law Journal: City's Denial of Gun Dealer's Concealed Carry Bid Upheld

[Cavalier Knight]

The New York City Police Department did not violate the constitutional rights of a traveling firearms dealer by denying his application to carry a concealed firearm, a Manhattan judge has ruled.

According to state Supreme Court Justice Michael Stallman's May 14 decision in Matter of Knight v. Bratton, 101556/14, plaintiff Cavalier Knight requested a license to carry a concealed handgun for self-defense and to protect his wares from theft.

Knight is a sales associate with the California-based Armored Mobility Inc. and sells law-enforcement related equipment, products that Knight argues are in demand by criminals and terrorists, thus creating danger for him while he is traveling and conducting business.

New York Law Journal Article: http://www.newyorklawjournal.com/id...lers-Concealed-Carry-Bid-Upheld#ixzz3ajv4yefZ

Summary of my case: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o2gnlzamie5airg/00.Article.78.Knight.v.Bratton.Summary.pdf?dl=0

My Article 78 Petition: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/t57ps0qd7jfx0x6/AABfXFZZ569JsStMsKS98wZ2a?dl=0

 

[gun_with_a_view]

This case is a slam dunk for the firearms dealer upon appeal. Right to travel, right to keep a firearm at the ready in the home. interference with free trade under the Commerce Act, ad naseum. It will never, ever pass strict scrutiny. Just another case resulting from the narrow opinion of SCOTUS in Heller while supported in the dicta. It's New York. Nobody expected anything different out of that hovel of a state. Similar same sort of useless garbage coming from The Capitol.

Is this the New Urban Dumb?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/may/19/dc-concealed-carry-dc-police-chief-downplays-rulin/

 

[Cavalier Knight]

Thanks for your support.

 

[Cavalier Knight]

Looks like i'm getting more press. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/appeal-shot-firearms-salesman-article-1.2233014

 

[Old Fuff]

You may know about the following, but just in case...

Other members may be interested too.

LEGAL & LEGISLATION NEWS SECOND AMENDMENT

Court Rebukes D.C. for Discretionary Licensing Regime, Orders Issuance of Concealed Carry Licenses to Eligible Applicants

On May 18, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an order prohibiting enforcement of provisions of D.C. law that effectively grant to the police chief the discretion to decide who may lawfully exercise the right to bear arms in public for self-defense. This follows on the heels of an earlier ruling in which the District lost the argument that the right to “bear arms” does not apply outside the home, leading to the hasty enactment of an "emergency" may-issue concealed carry licensing scheme. Such a license is the only means by which most people can lawfully carry firearms in D.C. for self-defense. Monday’s case, Wren v. District of Columbia, made a preliminary ruling that D.C.’s policy of discretionary issuance would likely run afoul of the Second Amendment.

NRA-ILA GRASSROOTS VOLUME 22, NUMBER 20

 

[Cavalier Knight]

I am very much aware of that case as well. Thanks for your support.

 

[Speedo66]

Well, if you've got the inclination, and the coin, you've got two more shots at it in NY. The Appellate Division for the 1st. Dept., and, failing there, the NYS Court of Appeals.

All depends on how far you wish to take this financially. Unfortunately, appeals are not inexpensive. Even before any legal fees, just getting copies of the lower court hearing or trial minutes from the court reporters, required for an appeal, is pricy.

Usually, but not always, the Federal Courts want you to exhaust any state remedies before they'll hear an issue.

 

[Cavalier Knight]

Cavalier Knight is also a partner of the NYPD Operation Nexus:

The New York City Police Department’s Operation Nexus is a nationwide network of businesses and enterprises joined in an effort to prevent another terrorist attack against our citizens. Our detectives have conducted over 25,000 visits to firms that have joined us in this mutual effort. Members of Operation Nexus are committed to reporting suspicious business encounters that they believe may have possible links to terrorism.

NYPD Operation Nexus: https://www.nypdshield.org/public/nexus.aspx

Yet the NYPD stated: “That claim is based upon pure speculation, which is unsupported by any evidence,” the judge said.

If it's speculation explain this:

He’s thinking of a number.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton finally gave a figure for the number of new officers he wants added to the NYPD, requesting at least 450 new police Sunday to combat what he said was an increased threat from terrorist groups like ISIS.

Bratton said he hoped to get approval for the additional officers, a number that would be a compromise between the City Council and Mayor de Blasio and “very, very quickly.”

“I'm going to put another 450 police officers – if we get the approval...into our counterterrorism operations to increase the ability of our officers to protect critical sites around the city,” Bratton said on grocery mogul John Catsimatidis’s Sunday radio show on AM 970.

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bill-bratton-450-isis-fighting-cops-added-nypd-article-1.2225649

 

[Sol]

"...in demand by criminals and terrorists, thus creating danger for him...."

Interesting wording to say the least.