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NY Governor Andrew Cuomo's so-called SAFE Act (Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act) is unconstitutional. The law explicitly goes after "military-style" firearms while purporting to protect hunting and sporting purposes. The Second Amendment is not about hunting and sporting uses of arms. Despite all the disputes about the phrasing, there can't be any question that it refers to "militia" and "the security of a free state." Neither of these has anything to do with hunting or sports. The key language in the ban shows that the legislative intent is to discriminate against "military-style" features, and favoring (in a relative sense)...

Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, D.C. Democrat. Mrs. Norton, a constitutional law professor at Georgetown University, based her comments in part on the narrowness of the ruling that gave D.C. residents the right to have handguns in their homes for protection, but "did not uphold an individual's right to have a gun at will."