New York's Democratic leaders aim to preserve as many restrictions as possible on carrying a handgun in public after the U.S.
New York's Democratic leaders aim to preserve as many restrictions as possible on carrying a handgun in public after the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down key portions of the state's gun-licensing law.
New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, also a Democrat, said state lawmakers should ban people from carrying handguns in any place containing more than 10,000 people per square mile , or anywhere within 1,000 feet of mass transit systems, hospitals, parks, government buildings, schools, churches, cemeteries, banks, theaters bars, libraries, homeless shelters and courts. That would effectively include the whole city.
As state leaders reacted to Thursday's ruling, Republican Chairman Nick Langworthy said it was "disgusting yet highly predictable" that Hochul and other Democrats "are trying to gin up fear and division over a legal gun owner's right to protect themselves and their family." New York's law did not define what proper cause meant, and it gave local authorities -- often police -- discretion on whether to issue a license. In practice, that meant most applicants had to show a need that went beyond routine public safety concerns, such as being in a profession that put them at special risk.
But the majority opinion suggested there were limits to how sweeping the place-based restrictions could be: "There is no historical basis for New York to effectively declare the island of Manhattan a `sensitive place' simply because it is crowded" and policed, Thomas wrote.
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