NEW YORK (March 6, 2024) – Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced the filing of a motion for summary judgment in its lawsuit challenging New York City’s ban on electronic arms, such as stun guns and tasers. The motion in Calce v. NYC can be viewed at FPCLegal.org.

“While the fate of the challenged laws is clear enough based on the foregoing analysis, it is worth noting the chorus of courts—at least three state appellate courts and two United States District Courts—that have struck down stun gun bans based on Heller alone,” argues the motion. “Although all of these courts reached the same result, the state courts did so by reasoning that categorical bans on possession and use are incompatible with the constitutional right—in the same basic manner set forth above—while the two District Courts did so even using an ‘intermediate scrutiny’ approach that the Supreme Court has since rejected in Bruen. Now that Bruen has unmistakably taken such interest-balancing off the table, it is even that much clearer that a flat ban on this category of arms cannot stand.”

“New York City’s ban on stun guns and tasers is one of the last in the country for one simple reason–nearly every court to review a challenge to such a law has struck it down,” said Cody J. Wisniewski, FPC Action Foundation’s Vice President and General Counsel, and counsel for FPC. “It is clear under the Supreme Court’s standard, set forth in Heller and reiterated in Bruen, that this sort of ban completely fails constitutional muster. New York City will simply be the next in a long line of governments that have been forced to cease enforcing a complete ban on electronic arms.”

FPC is joined in this case by five individual FPC members and the Second Amendment Foundation.

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