N.Y. Law Banning Gun Carrying in Churches Struck Down

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N.Y. Law Banning Gun Carrying in Churches Struck Down

Postby jdege on Sat Oct 22, 2022 9:02 am

https://reason.com/volokh/2022/10/21/n-y-law-banning-gun-carrying-in-churches-including-by-people-authorized-by-the-church-struck-down/
N.Y. Law Banning Gun Carrying in Churches (Including by People Authorized by the Church) Struck Down
Eight days after the Supreme Court struck down New York's unconstitutional "proper cause" requirement for conceal-carry licenses, the State responded with even more restrictive legislation, barring all conceal-carry license holders from vast swaths of the State. The complaint and motion in this case focus solely on one aspect of the new legislation, namely, the portion making it a felony for such a license holder to possess a firearm at "any place of worship or religious observation."

Ample Supreme Court precedent addressing the individual's right to keep and bear arms—from Heller and McDonald to its June 2022 decision in Bruen—dictates that New York's new place of worship restriction is equally unconstitutional. In Bruen, the Court made the Second Amendment test crystal clear: regulation in this area is permissible only if the government demonstrates that the regulation is consistent with the Nation's historical tradition of sufficiently analogous regulations. As set forth below, New York fails that test. The State's exclusion is, instead, inconsistent with the Nation's historical traditions, impermissibly infringing on the right to keep and bear arms in public for self-defense….
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