New York gun control advocates are enraged after a Trump-appointed judge blocked an unconstitutional gun law from taking effect and then raked Democrats over the coals for attempting to “eviscerate the Bill of Rights.” US District Judge John Sinatra Jr. issued an injunction that blocked a law that prohibits people in New York from bearing arms in places of worship.
BIZ PAC Review “The Constitution and the Bill of Rights are the Status quo – not 2022 legislation on the books for nine weeks,” the judge admonished. “Legislative enactments may not eviscerate the Bill of Rights. Every day they do is one too many.” “The nation’s history does not countenance such an incursion into the right to keep and bear arms across all places of worship across the state,” Sinatra continued. “The right to self-defense is no less important and no less recognized at these places.”
Two clerics and a number of gun rights organizations sued over the law, asking for an injunction until the court could hear the merits of the case. Pastor Jimmie Hardaway of Trinity Baptist Church of Niagara Falls argued he used to conceal carry his firearm prior to the enactment of the worship ban for “self-defense” and wants to encourage his parishioners to do the same. Hardaway asserts that he has been “stripped of the ability to keep the peace” and is “suffering diminished personal safety every time” he goes to church.
“The court reiterates that ample Supreme Court precedent addressing the individuals right to keep and bear arms – from Heller and McDonald to its June 2022 decision in [New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen] – dictates that New York’s new place of worship restriction is equally unconstitutional,” Sinatra stated, according to the injunction.
“The nation’s history does not countenance such an incursion into the right to keep and bear arms across all places of worship across the state,” Sinatra continued. “The right to self-defense is no less important and no less recognized at these places.”
In October, Sinatra issued a temporary hold on the law, noting, “In Bruen, the Court made the Second Amendment test crystal clear: regulations in this area is permissible only if the government demonstrates that the regulation is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of sufficiently analogous regulations. … New York fails that test. The State’s exclusion is, instead, inconsistent with the Nation’s historical traditions.”
BREAKING: Hardaway v. Nigrelli (W.D. NY): Judge issues preliminary injunction against New York’s ban on guns in places of worship, saying that “the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are the status quo, not 2022 legislation on the books for nine weeks.” https://t.co/S9Lkc64fKa pic.twitter.com/gCD5OpLYD4
— Rob Romano (@2Aupdates) November 3, 2022
BLR says
this is common sense so uncommon these days , God bless the ones who will pak the iron to back the Blue in New York who can’t be everywhere at the call from the desperate to bring lethal force to match the threat
Linda Rivera says
Wonderful news! A judge with ethics who can’t be bought!
Depriving law abiding citizens of the God-given right to defense, renders innocents defenseless prey for violent predators.
Precisely what George Soros, Obama, Pelosi, the Biden Crime Family and Fascist Left US Rulers want.
italy6966 says
Thank You Judge Sinatra..