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  • Judge tosses out SAFE Act charge against Lockport man - Says police violated Lockport man’s rights

    02/27/2014 5:52:37 PM PST · by neverdem · 11 replies
    The Buffalo News (NY) ^ | February 26, 201 | Thomas Prohaska
    LOCKPORT – Lockport police violated Paul A. Wojdan’s constitutional rights by counting the bullets in his gun and charging him with violating New York’s SAFE Act, Lockport City Judge William J. Watson ruled Wednesday. Watson dismissed a misdemeanor charge against Wojdan, filed because the magazine of his 9 mm Ruger handgun contained 10 bullets, more than the limit of seven bullets per magazine under the Secure Ammunition and Firearms Enforcement Act. On Dec. 31, 2½ months after Wojdan’s Oct. 12 arrest, Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny ruled that the seven-bullet rule was unconstitutional, the only portion of the...
  • Cost of Pensions Adds to Factory Town’s Troubles

    09/03/2006 10:40:25 PM PDT · by neverdem · 30 replies · 1,226+ views
    NY Times Terrorist Tip Sheet ^ | September 4, 2006 | DANNY HAKIM
    Costly Promises LOCKPORT, N.Y. — For two and a half years, Michael Tucker was mayor of this small city by day and an autoworker by night. Then in May, he became one of the nearly 50,000 workers at General Motors or its former Delphi parts division to take buyouts, lured by the $33,000-a-year pension his company offered. That pension, and a smaller one he expects to collect from the state after his years as mayor, makes him a little unusual in a nation where more and more workers are not covered by such plans. But now, as mayor of Lockport,...