New York gun law is based on the Sullivan act, which should have been ruled unconstitutional a hundred years ago. The act which licensed the ownership of pistols was pushed and passed by "Big Tim Sullivan" as a way to protect his street thugs and enforcers from citizens with guns.
Now the ubiquitous video and audio recorders are helping to restore some constitutional protections.
The case fell apart because the cops did not know someone had
videotaped them conducting an illegal search of a vehicle, then
high-fiving each other when they found a handgun stashed in the engine
compartment.
The man they arrested, Andrew James, filed a $3 million lawsuit against
the cops Thursday for malicious prosecution and violating his civil
rights stemming from the March 2012 encounter on Francis Lewis Boulevard
in south Queens.
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