New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers are negotiating a plan to restrict firearms in “sensitive places” like schools – and possibly the New York City subway system – after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling made it easier to legally carry guns in public.
A western view of the New York State Capitol building.New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and state lawmakers are negotiating a plan to restrict firearms in “sensitive places” like schools – and possibly the New York City subway system – after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Thursday made it easier to legally carry guns in public.
The decision was wide-reaching and absolute, finding that New York’s law violated the Fourteenth Amendment’s equal protection clause. Thomas also wrote the state was preventing citizens with “ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in public for self-defense.”
“here is no historical basis for New York to effectively declare the island of Manhattan a ‘sensitive place’ simply because it is crowded and protected generally by the New York City Police Department,” Thomas wrote.Changing the permitting process to require specific training in order to obtain a concealed-carry permit.
“New York will rise up to this latest challenge to pass additional gun safety legislation,” she said in a statement.
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