The Concealed Carry Improvement Act in New York State, which will take effect on September 1, has New Yorkers asking questions.
This from oann.com.
One of those questions is centered around Instagram and Facebook profiles.
The state’s newly revamped process for screening pistol permit applicants contains a controversial twist: Social media accounts will soon become fair game for investigators.
After the U.S. Supreme Court invalidated a key feature of the state’s licensing process earlier this year, New York legislators scrambled to lengthen the requirements for obtaining a permit.
Applicants will soon have to disclose to licensing officials:
[A] list of former and current social media accounts, going back three years. This information will be used to determine an applicant’s good moral character, a prerequisite to obtaining a firearms permit.
New York Assemblyman Robert Smullen has been working to answer some of the many questions for concerned citizens. Smullen said hundreds turned out recently for a public forum looking for guidance.
Signed into New York state law July 1st,
- The law expands eligibility requirements for those seeking a concealed carry permit,
- Implements new safe storage requirements for firearms,
- Allows the state to conduct background checks for anyone purchasing ammunition, and
- Restricts weapons in sensitive locations.
But some argue those locations need to be more specific and less exclusive.
Smullen said:
These are good law-abiding citizens who obey the law and they didn’t know that this was coming.
And then now that they’ve learned the truth about it, uh, they’re actually, they’re outraged about the entire thing.
Smullen added:
So, with less than a month away from the new restrictions, there is a distinct possibility that some of the new provisions will be put on hold thanks to the multiple lawsuits that have already been filed.
Once again, the 20 million New Yorkers who want their freedoms protected, are pawns in a political drama scene that must end.
The following from msn.com.
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned a more than 100-year-old law in New York, opening the door to allow people to carry handguns.
In a blatantly contrary response, the state of New York responded with a new law that will do just the opposite. The law will restrict where people can have a handgun.
On the surface the appearance is New York has simply changed the denying question from ‘Why’ to ‘Where.’
The new law will ban firearms on all private property unless the owner makes a point to allow them by putting up signs. It’s a flip of the switch from the current law, which allows legal concealed carry on most private property unless an owner posts signs forbidding guns.
The law also includes a list of 20 types of locations where guns are totally banned: churches, bars, restaurants with alcohol, public parks, government buildings, colleges and public gatherings, among other places.
Critics say the law will ban legal gun-owners from carrying weapons nearly anywhere besides their own home and public sidewalks. In nearly every other public place, guns are banned unless a property owner allows them.
The new law was passed quickly by the state legislature and signed by the governor in response to the 6-3 Supreme Court decision that struck down the state’s century-old gun licensing law.
And now it appears the State of New York is determined to be drug before the U.S. Supreme Court at least one more time concerning the Second Amendment rights of the people of New York. But until that occurs, the people of New York are still being denied their Second Amendment Rights.
God Speed to Conservatism.
Final thought: Their ought to be a law prescribing punitive measures to be taken against those who would deny the Constitutional Rights of the citizenry. Progressive liberal court decisions not withstanding.
