FEDERAL LAWSUIT CHALLENGES SEMI-AUTO BAN IN NEW YORK STATE - Second Amendment Foundation


FEDERAL LAWSUIT CHALLENGES SEMI-AUTO BAN IN NEW YORK STATE

federal lawsuit supported by the Second Amendment Foundation and Firearms Policy Coalition has been filed in New York, challenging that state's ban on so-called "assault weapons." Plaintiffs are represented by SAF and FPC attorneys.

The complaint was filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, on behalf of New York residents J. Mark Lane of Larchmont and James Sears of Irving. They are represented by attorneys Cody Wisniewski, Adam Kraut, who is also SAF executive director, and Nicolas J. Rotsko.

Named as defendants are New York State Attorney General Letitia James, State Police Supt. Steven A. Nigrelli and Westchester County District Attorney Miriam E. Rocah, in their official capacities.

"The issue in this lawsuit is very plain," said SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb. "Both Sears and Lane are law-abiding New York residents who wish to own modern semiautomatic sport-utility rifles such as the AR-15, for lawful purposes including target shooting and home defense. Such rifles are in common use across the country, yet in the Empire State, citizens face the threat of arrest, confiscation, prosecution, fined and imprisonment for lawfully using such rifles."

The lawsuit alleges that when the Second Circuit previously upheld New York's semi-auto ban in 2015, the court relied on a two-step test that has since been rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court in its June Bruen decision as "one step too many." Because the Second Circuit concluded that so-called "assault weapons" at issue are in common use, it should have held the New York ban violates the Second Amendment. This new action will allow the Second Circuit to correct the situation.

The complaint seeks a declaratory judgment that Lane and Sears have a fundamental right to keep and bear arms, and that the ban on common semiautomatic firearms by New York law is a violation of rights guaranteed by the Second and Fourteenth Amendments. Plaintiffs are also asking for a permanent injunction on the enforcement of the New York ban.

"We're simply asking the court to uphold the Constitution," Gottlieb stated.

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OTYKEN - LEGEND (Official Music Video)



The music video was filmed in the Krasnoyarsk Territory (Siberia). The Otyken is a Siberian aborigine’s music group. The marvelous combination of traditional musical instruments and modern arrangement will definitely entertain you! Our mystical throat singing, special elemental vocals, enchanting sounds of vargan (jaw harp), khomys, morinhur, leather drums will take you to the wild thickets of the Siberian taiga.

Members of the OTYKEN band from the small indigenous people of Siberia - Chulyms. The music video "Legend" was attended by residents of the countryside of the Tyukhtet district, Krasnoyarsk Territory. According to one version, the Chulyms are the ancestors of the Japanese Ainu and the indigenous peoples of North America. According to another version, the Chulyms are an ancient Turkic tribe.

The new song "Legend" is based on ancient Khakass legends. This is a song about a dutiful girl who cares about the welfare of her parents and her heart. Previously, we used these Khakass legends in the old album of 2018 (in the song "Aidym"). Aidym is the name of the guy with whom the main character of the song is in love. We didn't call the song "Legend" a «remake. We corrected the lyrics, rethought, modernized the music and created something new. Thanks everyone for your support!

In this song, we have collected modern musical genres: Pop-Rock, R&B, HipHop, Club and combined them with the traditional «world music» of the indigenous peoples of Siberia. We really hope you enjoy our work!

Members of the music video OTYKEN – LEGEND:
Producer - Andrey Medonos
Sound - Dmitry Kruzhkovsky
Vocal – Azyan
Drums – Hakaida
Vargan (Jaw harp) – Tsveta
Throat Singing – Ach
Ikili (Morinhur) - Kunсhari
Khomys (string instrument) – Otamay
Bas guitar - Aiko
Dance – Sandro

Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Press Release: Statement on Oregon Measure 114 - Operation Blazing Sword - Pink Pistols


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STATEMENT ON OREGON MEASURE 114

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Daytona Beach, FL, 17 December 2022: It is the position of Operation Blazing Sword – Pink Pistols that the recently-passed Oregon Ballot Measure 114 imposes a burdensome "permit to purchase" scheme upon all citizens, including marginalized and at-risk groups such as queer people. Much like North Carolina's Pistol Purchase Permit, a Jim Crow-era law which uses subjective criteria to deny black people the ability to own a handgun for protection, Measure 114 fails to clearly define what does and does not disqualify applicants. Moreover, Measure 114 applies to all firearms, not just handguns, and so in this manner it drinks deeper from the tainted well of discrimination and gives local police the unprecedented ability to deny the Right to Keep and Bear Arms to anyone they choose for any reason.

For example, a queer person seeking to purchase a firearm for the first time could be denied a permit by citing an "increased risk of suicide" for gender and sexual minorities. Similarly, someone who exercises their First Amendment rights to assemble and protest could be deemed "a threat to the community" and denied their Second Amendment rights. Meanwhile, members of highly polarized groups whose politics are seen as favorable by local governments could receive a pass for their behavior, ultimately creating more unrest rather than the intended assurance.

Operation Blazing Sword – Pink Pistols believes that gun rights are queer rights because lawfully owned and lawfully carried firearms defend queer lives, and that self-defense is a human right. Therefore, any measure which inhibits, delays, or prevents the ability of queer people to defend themselves is inherently homophobic and transphobic, and violates both civil and human rights.

In summation, Measure 114 is a profoundly discriminatory law that ultimately will not pass muster with the courts, especially in light of the recent NYSRPA v. Bruen ruling. To that end, Operation Blazing Sword – Pink Pistols is pleased to announce that it will be filing an Amicus Curiae brief on behalf of the plaintiffs suing to overturn this law in the Eyre v. Rosenblum suit.

Operation Blazing Sword, Inc. is a grass-roots 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to helping queer people become responsible firearm owners through volunteer education by maintaining a database of over 1500 queer-friendly firearm volunteer educators residing in every state of the USA. It also submits legal briefs (Amicus Curiae) to protect the rights of not just queer people, but all peaceable citizens, to have access to the most effective tools for self-defense. www.blazingsword.org

Pink Pistols, a division of Operation Blazing Sword, is dedicated to the legal, safe, and responsible use of firearms for self-defense of the gender and sexual minority community. www.pinkpistols.org

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Breaking: Huge 2A Victory! - Second Amendment Foundation


SAF VICTORY: FEDERAL JUDGE DECLARES CA FEE-SHIFTING UNCONSTITUTIONAL

A federal judge has declared California's controversial "fee-shifting" tenet of the state's new gun control law to be unconstitutional, and permanently enjoined the state from enforcing this provision, known as Section 1021.11...
 
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SAF, DEFENSE DISTRIBUTED ALLOWED TO INTERVENE IN VANDERSTOK CASE

 A federal court in Texas has granted a request by the Second Amendment Foundation and Defense Distributed to intervene in a case known as VanDerStok v. Garland, which challenges the authority of the Justice Department and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives...
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GOA FOIA Shows NICS-Index-Self-Submission Form Was Used Beyond the FBI - Ammoland.com

 WASHINGTON, D.C. -(Ammoland.com)- A Gun Owner of America (GOA) Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request has turned up documents that show the use of the NICS-Index-Self-Submission Form goes beyond just the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

In 2019, AmmoLand News published a secret FBI document that allowed American citizens to sign away their Constitutionally protected gun rights. At the time, it was believed that only mental health professionals and the FBI were using the form.

The GOA FOIA request proved that the document was used throughout the government.

Recently there has been a battle in Congress over the forms. A recent hearing over the forms shows that Congress is split on party lines. Republicans have been horrified over the use of the documents, while Democrats have been trying to get the use of the form codified into law. Dueling bills over the forms are expected to be filed over the use of the documents.

The documents, first revealed by the Washington Examiner, show that other government agencies, such as the Secret Service (USSS), Social Security Administration (SSA), and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), all worked hand and hand with the FBI to strip Americans of their gun rights by using the legally dubious form. One form found in 2017 shows that the USSS submitted a document to the FBI to add someone to the NICS indices for being adjudicated as mentally defective, which is legal under the law. Still, the government agency would go beyond what was allowed by Congress.

In 2018, the USSS would start utilizing the FBI’s NICS-Index-Self-Submission Form with subjects of multiple investigations. The Secret Service would continue to use the form to have targets of their investigations sign away their gun rights. The USSS doesn’t tell the FBI how they got the people to sign the documents leading some to believe that the people could have been coerced and pressured to give up their rights.

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