Judge José A. Cabranes, writing for a unanimous three-judge panel at The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan on Monday held that the “core provisions of the New York and 21 Connecticut laws prohibiting possession of ...
I've spent the last two days attempting to understand the logic of 2nd U.S. Circuit Judge Jose A. Cabranes in his decision (PDF) to uphold so-called “assault weapon” bans rammed through the legislatures of New York and Connecticut in a headlong rush to ...
Judge Cabranes included an inexplicable observation in his 57-page ruling that could be easily challenged with FBI crime data. Regarding so-called “assault weapons” he wrote, “These weapons are disproportionately used in crime, and particularly in ...
According to Judge José Cabranes, writing for the three-judge panel, the states' interest in public safety overrode concerns over infringements of individual rights, calling those interests “important — indeed, compelling — … in controlling crime ...
In finding that the “core provisions” of the laws did not violate the Second Amendment, Judge José A. Cabranes, writing for a unanimous three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Manhattan, said the states had ...
"In both states, citizens may continue to arm themselves with non-semiautomatic weapons or with any semiautomatic gun that does not contain any of the enumerated military-style features," Cabranes wrote. "Similarly, while citizens may not acquire ...