BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is appalled that New York City gun laws, and prosecutors in the Queens District Attorney’s Office, have put a 67-year-old citizen behind bars for defending himself against a recidivist criminal with an unlicensed handgun.
According to the New York Post, Charles Foehner was not prosecuted for fatally shooting would-be thief Cody Gonzalez two years ago. Instead, prosecutors slapped Foehner with multiple gun law violations, Foehner’s attorney “ripped the city’s ‘draconian’ gun laws,” the newspaper said.
“We agree wholeheartedly with attorney Thomas Kenniff’s assessment of New York’s gun laws,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “Almost everywhere else in the country, Mr. Foehner would be getting accolades for defending himself against a guy with Gonzalez’ criminal record, but in New York, he’s getting four years in prison. Queens prosecutors should be ashamed of themselves for using New York’s despicable gun laws to imprison a man who was defending himself from a thug who had at least 15 arrests in his background, along with a record of mental illness.
“Apparently in New York City,” he continued, “it’s more important to allow dangerous repeat offenders to roam the streets, while putting good people behind bars. We have seen this repeatedly in the Big Apple, with cases such as the one against subway hero Daniel Penny two years ago.”
Published reports say Foehner had several unregistered firearms in his residence, allowing prosecutors to file multiple charges against him.
He used one of those guns to fatally shoot Gonzales, who reportedly demanded money and cigarettes before he lunged at Foehner with what appeared to be a knife, but turned out to be a pen.
“If there is true justice in the world,” Gottlieb said, “Mr. Foehner’s sentence would be commuted, at the very least, when he appears in court on Jan. 14. But this is New York City, where the good guys are treated like bad guys, and the real bad guys—who truly belong behind bars—are continually recycled back to the streets.”
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Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
Think it’s bad already give it a year.
Those who call good evil and evil good……………… Much of the country is living under this satanic delusion.
The New York City Police realy get a thrill out of going after the Good-Guy to get him. The Prosecutors in New York are grandstanding Creeps too. They even got a Judge’s Warrant to “get” the Good-Guy. Those New York City Detectives really spent a lot of Geovernment City Time and money to get the Good Man. Listen to the the faggot Left-Wing News Personnel, they stress the words “assault rifle” and “AK47”; they should be asking Police management wouldn’t the Police/Detective Time be better spent going after Criminals that got away with violent crimes while you were going after… Read more »
So glad to have left NY state.
What part of, Shall not be infringed” is difficult to understand? Any law that goes against the constitution is null and void per SCOTUS; Marbury vs Madison. Wasn’t there also a guy on the subway who defended himself way back when? B. Goetz??? This is why people are reticent to trust the authorities/government. The cops, judge and prosecutor should all be fired, arrested and jailed under charges of tyranny and treason.
Arm up and carry on
NY ONE OF THE MOST Ignorant groups, I believe I’ve ever heard of.
This is what happens when cities hire low IQ thugs to be government enforcers.
Chicken shit prosecution. The cops should be ashamed of themselves
If the incident happened outside his home, why was his home searched? I bet that stems from him opening his big mouth when he should have zipped his lips.
I can’t say what i think should happen to New York “lawmakers” because i would probably get a knock on my door from the cops. This is complete and utter bullshit. It doesn’t matter if the guy had a tank and machine guns in his apartment, he wasn’t a threat to anyone but some violent POS.
We know that these scumbag lawmakers don’t give half a shit about public safety only keeping the NY citizens under their tyrannical assed thumbs.