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Body Armor Ban Struck Down by N.Y. Federal Court

From today's decision by Judge John Sinatra (W.D.N.Y.) in Heeter v. James: New York enacted a first-of-its-kind law prohibiting law-abiding residents-who… The post Body Armor Ban Struck Down by N.Y. Federal Court appeared first on Reason Magazine.

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