{"id":13967,"date":"2013-12-31T15:36:32","date_gmt":"2013-12-31T20:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=13967"},"modified":"2014-01-01T07:55:07","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T12:55:07","slug":"breaking-federal-judge-upholds-most-of-ny-safe-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2013\/12\/31\/breaking-federal-judge-upholds-most-of-ny-safe-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge upholds most of NY SAFE Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13968\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/12\/NYsafe.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13968\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-13968\" alt=\"New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signs the NY SAFE act into law in January of 2013. Photo: Karen DeWitt\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/12\/NYsafe-450x326.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/12\/NYsafe-450x326.jpg 450w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/12\/NYsafe-150x108.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/12\/NYsafe-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/files\/2013\/12\/NYsafe.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13968\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo signs the NY SAFE act into law in January of 2013. Photo: Karen DeWitt<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The New York Times is reporting that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/01\/nyregion\/federal-judge-upholds-majority-of-new-york-gun-law.html?hp&amp;_r=0\">a federal judge has upheld most of New York&#8217;s gun law<\/a> (sorry, paywalled link). Judge William M. Skretny of they Federal District Court in Buffalo ruled, the Times reports, that &#8220;New York\u2019s expanded ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines was constitutional, but struck down a provision forbidding gun owners from loading their firearms with more than seven rounds.&#8221; He said the seven-round limit was an &#8220;arbitrary restriction&#8221; that violated the second amendment.<\/p>\n<p>New York was the first state to pass the tougher new gun laws after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn., last December. The law, although popular downstate, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcountrypublicradio.org\/news\/story\/21345\/20130130\/will-gun-owners-go-along-with-ny-s-tough-new-law\">has been controversial<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times is reporting that a federal judge has upheld most of New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5614,8615,8614,11550,12099],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13967"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13967"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13981,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13967\/revisions\/13981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}