Posted July 8, 2019 2:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

I don’t expect sanity from New York. It doesn’t matter which political subdivision you’re talking about, either. The phrase “New York” generally applies to something either stupid or crazy, especially when it comes to guns.

But it looks like someone may be having an acute case of sanity up that way.

More than seven years ago, Iraq War hero Benjamin M. Wassell became the first person to be criminally prosecuted under New York State’s SAFE Act, a controversial gun control law that has been applauded by advocates for victims of violent crimes but attacked by defenders of the right to bear arms.

State Police arrested Wassell, of Silver Creek, after alleging that he sold two semiautomatic “assault weapons” to an undercover investigator. Wassell, who suffered a brain injury from the explosion of an improvised bomb in Iraq, claimed he was confused by differing information that people gave him about the SAFE Act.

Wassell expects to walk into a Chautauqua County courtroom Monday morning and find out that the charges filed against him have been permanently dismissed, never to be pursued again by state prosecutors.

A state appeals court overturned Wassell’s convictions in April. Wassell’s attorney, James Ostrowski, told The Buffalo News Sunday …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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