{"id":3897,"date":"2025-10-15T19:50:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/3897\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T19:50:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T19:50:07","slug":"background-check-law-for-ammo-will-remain-in-ny-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/3897\/","title":{"rendered":"Background check law for ammo will remain in NY state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(WRGB) \u2014 A law requiring background checks to buy ammo in New York State will stay in place.<\/p>\n<p>The Concealed Carry Improvement Act was enacted in July 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Letitia James called it a victory for her office, which has been fighting to uphold the law.<\/p>\n<p>The New York State Firearms Association filed several lawsuits in 2023 attempting to block the law.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York denied a preliminary injunction in May 2024, citing a lack of merit in the plaintiffs\u2019 case.<\/p>\n<p>The Second Circuit Court has upheld the lower court\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce again, my office has successfully defended New York\u2019s background checks on ammunition sales despite repeated attempts to undermine this commonsense law,\u201d said James in a statement. \u201cEvery New Yorker deserves to feel safe in their community and my office will continue to defend our laws and protect public safety.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WRGB) \u2014 A law requiring background checks to buy ammo in New York State will stay in place.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4151,2303,4150,4152,2850,9,11,10,49,51,50,308,4153],"class_list":{"0":"post-3897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-ammunition","9":"tag-attorney-general-letitia-james","10":"tag-background-checks","11":"tag-concealed-carry-improvement-act","12":"tag-lawsuits","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-new-york-state","17":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","18":"tag-new-york-state-news","19":"tag-public-safety","20":"tag-second-circuit-court"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897","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=3897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}