When Edward Garrett moved here from South Dakota, he went about getting a pistol permit.
Three years later, he’s suing New York State in Buffalo federal court.
“Whatever happened to the words, ‘shall not be infringed?’ ” asked Garrett, a Town of Evans resident and the new chairman of the Erie County Libertarian Party.
Garrett is one of eight plaintiffs in a new civil suit challenging the constitutionality of New York’s pistol permit law, a gun control law dating to 1911 and the Tammany Hall days of New York City.
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