A new gun law in New York violates constitutional rights, a federal judge said on Oct. 10 as he blocked it.
The law, enacted in 2023, bars carrying guns on private property unless the property has signs saying carrying firearms is allowed.
“At least as to private property open to the public (the subject of this motion), New York’s restriction is unconstitutional—a result dictated by the teaching of the Supreme Court’s recent cases addressing individual Americans’ right to keep and bear arms,” U.S. District Judge John L. Sinatra Jr. wrote in a 43-page decision.
Sinatra pointed to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in 2022 that concluded that Second Amendment rights cannot be interfered with by the government unless officials can show the restrictions are consistent with the nation’s history of firearm regulation….