{"id":195519,"date":"2026-04-13T15:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/195519\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T15:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T15:26:10","slug":"new-york-citys-prohibition-on-stun-guns-tasers-survives-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/195519\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City\u2019s Prohibition on Stun Guns, Tasers Survives Appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gun rights advocates failed Monday to revive their constitutional challenge to New York City\u2019s ban on civilian possession of stun guns and tasers.<\/p>\n<p>The New York City residents and groups that brought the suit failed to present evidence that stun guns are in common use and entitled to Second Amendment protections, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/aboutblaw.com\/blqo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">summary order<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The US Supreme Court\u2019s ruling in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberglaw.com\/public\/document\/NYStateRiflePistolAssnvBruenNo208432022BL2169752022UsLexis3055USJ?doc_id=X826GI0G000N\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">N.Y. State Rifle &amp; Pistol Ass\u2019n v. Bruen<\/a> directed courts considering constitutional challenges to gun rules to first analyze the text of the Second Amendment and then consider &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gun rights advocates failed Monday to revive their constitutional challenge to New York City\u2019s ban on civilian possession&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5003,9,24,55,54,56,5103],"class_list":["post-195519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-gun-control","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-right-to-bear-arms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}