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Lawsuit Targets New York's Post-Sandy Hook Gun Law

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lawhawk1/31/2013 12:25:35 pm PST

There’s a severability clause in the enacting legislation, which means that if one part of the bill is struck down for any reason, it wont prevent the rest from remaining in effect.

So, if the courts found that the 7 round limit too restrictive, it wouldn’t prevent the function of the mental hygiene or background check provisions.

And as I’ve written previously, the law relating to exemptions is written in a way that could give the courts leeway to avoid applying it to law enforcement or the military until a time when the legislature enacts a fix clarifying the exemption specific to them.