Civil Rights Attorney Blasts Cuomo For Discrimination Against Gun Owners

By Ammoland Editor Joe Evans

WEBSTER, N.Y. -(Ammoland.com)- Civil rights attorney Paloma A. Capanna today blasted Governor Cuomo for discriminating against law-abiding gun owners through excessive reporting of patients to the FBI.

The statement was made immediately following the FBI release of the 2016 year-end statistics of reports voluntarily made by states to the FBI for inclusion in the “National Instant Criminal Background Check System” (“NICS”), a database of persons disqualified from firearms ownership, use, or possession in all 50 states and U.S. territories.

“In the past 12 months, Governor Cuomo has reported more than 80,000 residents of this State to the FBI for having been involuntarily committed to a mental institution,” says Capanna. “Out of the total of more than 460,000 persons reported since 2013, a few people across the state have somehow been targeted by the NYS Police for revocation of their handgun license and confiscation of their firearms. Every person I have represented to date in such a license hearing has proven to the satisfaction of the court that the report against them was false. This upsurge in reporting by Cuomo to the FBI is nothing …Read the Rest

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