{"id":4863,"date":"2010-07-15T17:03:40","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T22:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=4863"},"modified":"2010-07-16T12:10:18","modified_gmt":"2010-07-16T17:10:18","slug":"saf-sues-in-new-york-to-void-good-cause-carry-permit-requirements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/saf-sues-in-new-york-to-void-good-cause-carry-permit-requirements\/4863\/","title":{"rendered":"SAF sues in New York to void ‘Good Cause’ carry permit requirements"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Attorney Alan Gura is representing the plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit against Westchester County, New York.<\/p><\/div>\n

BELLEVUE, WA \u2013 The Second Amendment Foundation has filed a federal lawsuit against Westchester County, New York and its handgun permit licensing officers, seeking a permanent injunction against enforcement of a state law that allows carry licenses to be denied because applicants cannot show \u201cgood cause.\u201d<\/p>\n

SAF is joined in the lawsuit by Alan Kachalsky and Christina Nikolov, both Westchester County residents whose permit applications were denied. Kachalsky\u2019s denial was because he could not \u201cdemonstrate a need for self protection distinguishable from that of the general public.\u201d Nikolov\u2019s was denied because she could not demonstrate that there was \u201cany type of threat to her own safety anywhere.\u201d In addition to Westchester County, Susan Cacace and Jeffrey Cohen, both serving at times as handgun permit licensing officers, are named as defendants. The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, White Plains Division.<\/p>\n

Attorney Alan Gura is representing the plaintiffs, along with attorney Vincent Gelardi with Gelardi & Randazzo of Rye Brook, NY. Gura recently represented SAF and the Illinois State Rifle Association in their landmark Second Amendment Supreme Court victory over the City of Chicago.<\/p>\n

Under New York Penal Code \u00a7 400.00, handgun carry permit applicants must \u201cdemonstrate good cause for the issuance of a permit,\u201d the lawsuit alleges. This requirement violates the Second Amendment, according to the plaintiffs.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerican citizens like Alan Kachalsky and Christina Nikolov should not have to demonstrate good cause in order to exercise a constitutionally-protected civil right,\u201d noted SAF Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb. \u201cOur civil rights, including the right to keep and bear arms, should not be subject to the whims of a local government or its employees, just because they don\u2019t think someone \u2018needs\u2019 a carry permit. Nobody advocates arming criminals or mental defectives, but honest citizens with clean records should not be denied out of hand.<\/p>\n

\u201cThanks to our recent victory before the Supreme Court,\u201d Gottlieb stated, \u201cthe Second Amendment now applies to state and local governments. Our lawsuit is a reminder to state and local bureaucrats that we have a Bill of Rights in this country, not a \u2018Bill of Needs\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

The case is filed as Kachalsky v. Cacase, U.S. Dist. Ct. S.D. N.Y. 10-05413<\/p>\n

The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org<\/a>) is the nation’s oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 650,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control. SAF has previously funded successful firearms-related suits against the cities of Los Angeles; New Haven, CT; and San Francisco on behalf of American gun owners, a lawsuit against the cities suing gun makers and an amicus<\/em> brief and fund for the Emerson case holding the Second Amendment as an individual right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BELLEVUE, WA \u2013 The Second Amendment Foundation has filed a federal lawsuit against Westchester County, New York and its handgun permit licensing officers, seeking a permanent injunction against enforcement of a state law that allows carry licenses to be denied because applicants cannot show \u201cgood cause.\u201d SAF is joined in the lawsuit by Alan Kachalsky […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[853,851,852,850],"class_list":["post-4863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-second-amendment","tag-alan-gura","tag-alan-kachalsky","tag-christina-nikolov","tag-the-second-amendment-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}