{"id":378928,"date":"2026-10-21T22:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378928\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T22:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:14:11","slug":"judge-strikes-down-n-y-states-body-armor-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378928\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge strikes down N.Y. state&#8217;s body armor ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal court has struck down New York state\u2019s body armor ban that advocates pushed for in the wake of the racist <a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/buffalo\/public-safety\/2022\/05\/14\/poloncarz--active-shooting-at-jefferson-street-tops--residents-asked-to-avoid-area\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mass shooting<\/a> at a Buffalo Tops supermarket that killed 10 black people and injured three others in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling from U.S. District Court Judge John Sinatra found that the ban violates the Second Amendment and is therefore unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit was brought by two people who wanted to buy body armor for self-defense reasons but couldn&#8217;t because of the law.<\/p>\n<p>Sinatra paused his ruling for 14 days to allow the state time to appeal his decision.<\/p>\n<p>The Tops shooter, Payton Gendron, was wearing body armor when he carried out the attack, spurring passage of the ban in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The state attorney general&#8217;s office\u00a0says they are reviewing the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal court has struck down New York state\u2019s body armor ban that advocates pushed for in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[113,9,11,10,49,51,50,12,87,308,380],"class_list":["post-378928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-buffalo","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-public-safety","tag-spectrum-news-staff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378928","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=378928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}