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Gun rights group to sue over NY's tough new law

Denine Timlin, with the family-owned RT Smoke N

Photo credit: Xavier Mascarenas | Denine Timlin, with the family-owned RT Smoke N Gun Shop in Mount Vernon, shows a customer a Remington 7600 Police .308-caliber rifle. (Dec. 18, 2012)

A gun owners' group has filed a notice of its intention to sue New York State in attempting to overturn the restrictive gun law passed two weeks ago.

The New York Rifle & Pistol Association, in a notice filed Tuesday, says passage and enforcement violate the constitutional right to bear arms and the right to privacy, and unconstitutionally criminalizes guns and magazines that were previously...

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