New York gun law provisions that bar the carrying of guns on private property open to the public and mandate that permit applicants disclose their social media accounts are unconstitutional, a federal appeals court ruled on Oct. 24.
The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit declined to block other parts of the statute.
The Concealed Carry Improvement Act makes it a crime for a person to carry a gun on private property “where such person knows or reasonably should know that the owner or lessee of such property has not permitted such possession by clear and conspicuous signage indicating that the carrying of firearms, rifles, or shotguns on their property is permitted or by otherwise giving express consent.”…