With its New Gun Law, New York is Just Begging to Get Slapped Down Again

Every so often a problem child does something wrong just to get punished. Maybe it’s testing the limits to see where the boundaries are. But in the case of New York State, it appears to be much more malignant. Space prohibits an exhaustive review, but it’s quite certain that New York’s new gun law is an in-your-face, single-finger salute to the Supreme Court in response to the Bruen decision. It’s likely to get all the respect a parent should give to that misbehaving offspring.

SCOTUS said that NY was not allowed to demand “good cause” to get a permit. So, NY wrote the law to demand “good moral character,” instead. This new phrase is nothing more than a placeholder for “good cause” because the law says it means “having the essential character, temperament and judgment necessary to be entrusted with a weapon and to use it only in a manner that does not endanger oneself or others.” In other words, good cause.

The Constitution does not allow such a restriction. You are either a prohibited person (such as a convicted felon) or not. This new definition in NY law is the very definition of “arbitrary and capricious” in practice. It sounds neutral, but just as with “good cause,” if the reviewing officer doesn’t like you, your application is toast.

New York then goes on to list a host of “sensitive locations” in which guns are barred. The first is generally unobjectionable: government administration buildings. Then it goes downhill. Any location where health care is provided is included. That would include homeless camps where mobile clinics work. Any “place of worship or religious observation” is prohibited. This would include a park where sunrise Easter services take place.

And it would deny churches such as the West Freeway Church of Christ the ability to limit the carnage a shooter would create.

SCOTUS flatly denied New York the ability to declare Manhattan a “sensitive location.” But the law circumvents this by saying that any private property that does not have a “Guns Allowed” sign is “sensitive.” If we add in buildings that house government agencies, that’s not just all of Manhattan, it’s all of New York State.

“They know it will take years to work its way through the system back up there.”

IIRC and without benefit of any research at all, Chicago and DC both tried this approach of alternately “giving the finger” and a bit of “incrementalism” in response to their respective adverse SCOTUS decisions. As best as I remember, both of them went back into the system but only up to the Circuit Court of Appeals level without proceeding to SCOTUS. Anybody with more info or references is free to correct my recollection.

“They know it will take years to work its way through the system back up there.”

Sure, but in the meantime, if you get arrested for violating New York’s gun law, you know you can just appeal your way up to the Supreme Court for a pretty much guaranteed dismissal. So if I lived there I might just start packing and roll the dice.

As I recall, there was a prior case where a NY city law was about to be overturned, and NY changed its law right before it was heard by the SC so they argued, and won, that this case was not relevant anymore. They tried to do it with the latest case and the SC wouldn’t have anything to do with it. I wonder when someone sues NY, whether the SC will step in and intervene expeditiously.

This has become a lawless country - just look around. Ever since the Biden usurpation the constitution and bill of rights are being shredded every day and criminals go unpunished while political prisoners are mistreated and denied their rights.

It will end, somehow, some day.

Until it does we will see more of this, the day has come when states will simply ignore Scotus decisions (i.e. Roe) that they don’t like and dare anyone to do anything about it. Will federal marshalls or the Army be dispatched to New York if Hochul fails to abide by the Scotus decision?

Remember who controls those resources and there’s your answer...

Ever since the Biden usurpation the constitution and bill of rights are being shredded every day and criminals go unpunished while political prisoners are mistreated and denied their rights.
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Ever since the Kenyanesian Usurpation.

Obama was never eligible to be President.

He was born a British subject and a Kenyan national, even if he had been born in the Lincoln bedroom of the White House and came back from Indonesia as an Indonesian citizen.

Natural born citizens are NATURALLY Americans because they could not be anything else.

Anyone who can be something else is NOT a natural born citizen.

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