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\"Marine
New York resident Brian Wassell was cleared of all charges by the New York Supreme Court (Photo: 2AWNY Youtube)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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The first man convicted under the New York SAFE Act has been cleared of all charges, 2AWNY.com announced<\/a> last week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Western New York gun-rights group filed a lawsuit back in 2013 on behalf of their client, Marine Corps veteran Brian Wassell, and appealed their case all the way to the New York State Supreme Court. After securing a unanimous victory in the Supreme Court, 2AWNY asked that the case be dismissed \u201cwith prejudice,\u201d meaning that Wassell can never face the same charges again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York Attorney General initially filed a motion to\nmove the case up to the Court of Appeals, but soon reversed course and agreed\nto 2AWNY\u2019s request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSix years ago, my life was turned upside down by a law that politicians enacted for political reasons that does absolutely nothing to protect the citizens,\u201d Wassell said during a press conference<\/a>. \u201cThese laws are turning people\u2019s lives upside down, like mine, every day.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI urge everybody, if you don\u2019t understand these laws, you\nneed to learn. You need to educate yourself because, if you just listen to what\nthese politicians say, they\u2019re going to run railroad over everybody,\u201d Wassell\ncontinued. \u201cToday, it\u2019s finally over for me, but there\u2019s a lot of other people\nthat still have to deal with this. We have to stop criminalizing good people\nand passing laws that are based on sentiment and have absolutely no effect on\ncrime.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: Can New York City Ban Your Right to Bear Arms?<\/a> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Days after New York passed the SAFE Act in 2013, Wassell was caught in a sting by the New York State Police. Wassell, who had recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, still owned several now-banned \u201cassault weapons\u201d and was approached by someone at a gun shop who wanted to purchase his rifles. After agreeing to the sale, Wassell was charged with multiple violent felonies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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His case was dismissed by the State Supreme Court not on Second Amendment grounds but because the State Attorney General “failed to demonstrate legal authority to prosecute the case,” according<\/a> to 2AWNY. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2AWNY’s Civil Rights Advocate Steve Felano said in a recent interview<\/a> that he believes the Attorney General withdrew his motion to move the case to the Court of Appeals because he feared an eventual appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, which could rule on the Second Amendment issues the state courts failed to address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c[The Attorney General] knew all along that if the Court of\nAppeals heard this, we could bring up all the Second Amendment arguments that\nwe made initially that the New York State Supreme Court just ignored, and then\nwe could appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court. They didn\u2019t want that to\nhappen,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

SEE ALSO: New York Democrat Threatens Extinction of Local Gun Shops with New Bill<\/a> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Wassell\u2019s dismissal doesn\u2019t mean the U.S. Supreme Court can\nno longer consider the constitutionality of the SAFE Act, however. Felano noted\nthat there are \u201cdozens of attorneys\u201d across the state who are actively\nlitigating their own SAFE Act cases, and they hope to move these cases up the\nchain towards the highest court in the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe end of New York gun control is coming,\u201d 2AWNY concludes in a press release announcing its most recent victory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act of 2013 (SAFE Act) is among the most restrictive gun ban schemes in the country. The legislation (among other things) bans \u201cassault weapons,\u201d standard-capacity magazines, and private firearm sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

***Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a>***<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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