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With New York’s post- Bruen restrictions on the right to carry set to take effect tomorrow, some county sheriffs are warning that the new laws will only make things worse for law-abiding citizens. And based on comments by New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, we could see a new legal challenge to the pending rules in the days to come.
Thousands of New Yorkers have been lining up outside of county offices over the past couple of weeks to apply for their concealed carry permits before the new rules take effect, with Niagara County Clerk Joe Jastrzemski telling the local paper that he’s had almost as many applications in the past 12 days as the county normally receives over the course of a year . Folks have been rushing to apply before the new rules take effect, which require 16 hours of training and impose new provisions that appear to be designed to block applicants from being approved, like requiring law enforcement to comb through applicants’ social media accounts in order to determine whether they’ve displayed “good moral character”. County officials across the state have been telling applicants that as long as they drop off their completed application before September 1st, they’ll be processed under the previous requirements (absent the state’s “justifiable need” mandate that was struck down by the Supreme Court in NYSRPA v. Bruen ).
On Wednesday, however, Hochul declared that simply wasn’t so , and boasted that applicants shouldn’t hold their breath waiting to learn whether or not they’ve been approved. “It’s who has a permit on the date,” Hochul said. “Not that you’ve applied.” The process to be approved for a pistol permit, before or after the deadline, is a lengthy one that involves a series of background checks and interviews of neighbors. “It could take months. It […]
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