{"id":196055,"date":"2021-03-07T01:38:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T22:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nyc-lawyer-fights-to-get-gun-permit-back-from-nypd\/"},"modified":"2021-03-07T01:38:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T22:38:36","slug":"nyc-lawyer-fights-to-get-gun-permit-back-from-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nyc-lawyer-fights-to-get-gun-permit-back-from-nypd\/","title":{"rendered":"#NYC lawyer fights to get gun permit back from NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#NYC lawyer fights to get gun permit back from NYPD<\/strong>”
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The NYPD took away his heat \u2014 and a Manhattan attorney is burning mad.<\/p>\n

Max Leifer is suing the NYPD because the department\u2019s License Division shot down his gun permit renewal app<\/a>lication \u2014 after nearly 50 years of him safely carrying a firearm. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt is amazing that while New York City is plagued by unlicensed gun holders, the NYPD is now depriving a law-abiding New York City resident who has maintained a license for 47 years without any problems,\u201d Leifer says in his Manhattan Supreme Court filing.<\/p>\n

The legal eagle, who once sued famed bridal-gown designer Vera Wang for $2 million, has been an attorney since 1972 and never had an issue getting his gun permit renewed every three years. <\/p>\n

Leifer said he needs the harder-to-get \u201ccarry\u201d permit because he does business deals and takes client retainers that sometimes involve a \u201csubstantial amount of cash.\u201d He\u2019s also a partner in two bars \u2014 Brandy Library in Tribeca and Copper & Oak on the Lower East Side \u2014 which \u201calso generate cash.\u201d<\/p>\n

In July 2020, for the first time since he started using handguns for protection in 1973, his renewal application on was denied. <\/p>\n

A judge will now have to decide whether Leifer\u2019s two guns \u2014 a James Bond-like Walther automatic and a .38-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver \u2014 remain locked away at the 10th Precinct stationhouse on West 20th Street for safekeeping.<\/p>\n

The NYPD claims Leifer, 75, did not fully cooperate with its investigator by failing to produce, among other things, \u201cthree months of bank statements and the corresponding deposit slips, and documentation of being in extraordinary personal danger.\u201d He admittedly snarked that the NYPD was acting like the IRS.<\/p>\n

The NYPD concluded, \u201cthe activities which justified granting a Business Carry License in the past, do not exist anymore. You no longer carry or transport cash. You no longer transact business involving expensive watches and artifacts. You no longer collect rent from rental properties. This amounts to a change in circumstance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leifer called the scandal-scarred License Division \u201ca joke.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey intentionally do not want to give licenses. Contrary to the second amendment where a citizen should be able to have a gun in his home or business,\u201d he said. \u201cMeanwhile, all these maniacs are running around with unlicensed guns and shooting everybody in the street. Every day you have a shooting, a killing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Post exclusively revealed in December that while 8,088 applications for first-time rifle and gun permits had been filed since March 22 \u2014 when COVID-19 restrictions\u00a0went into effect\u00a0\u2014 only 1,087 were granted, a rate of around 14 percent. During the same time period in 2019, the NYPD approved 1,778 of 2,562 applications, a rate of nearly 70 percent. <\/p>\n

The department could not give any stats on renewals when asked last week.<\/p>\n

Gun store owners said at the time they\u2019d been hearing complaints from potential customers whose applications seem to have disappeared into limbo.<\/p>\n

The License Division was\u00a0rocked by a corruption scandal\u00a0in 2017, with officers accused of fast\u2013tracking applications for gun licenses\u00a0in exchange for bribes that included booze and hookers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has undoubtedly been a change in policy over the issuance of carry handgun licenses, since the shakeup from the public corruption scandal,\u201d said Manhattan attorney Fred Abrams, who has been handling gun permit issues for 30 years. \u201cThe rules that guide the police department in these licenses have remained unchanged. People from all walks of life, who the license division deemed eligible for carry handgun licenses, suddenly are ineligible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abrams said one of his clients, an auctioneer who handles over $1 million in cash annually, had an unrestricted business carry handgun license for decades.\u00a0At last renewal, he was \u201cgiven an ultimatum: accept a restricted license (valid only certain days, times and geographical locations) or get no license at all.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n

A restricted permit \u201ccan\u2019t be used for self defense outside of the licensed business premise. The gun is essentially confined to the physical location. A gun locked up inside their business premise does them no good \u2026 they are most vulnerable \u2026 coming from their home, carrying large sums of money.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are easy prey.\u201d<\/p>\n

A source familiar with the situation told The Post in December that would-be gun owners began flooding the department with permit applications shortly after the May 25\u00a0police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, which\u00a0sparked widespread protests and riots. This has created a huge backlog.<\/p>\n

Leifer\u2019s \u201cArticle 78\u201d petition \u2014 filed Feb. 3 \u2014 seeks the renewal of his pistol license and unspecified court costs.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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