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VIDEO: New York Enacts Ridiculous New Gun Laws In Response To Supreme Court Ruling Jul 3, 2022 Colion Noir
In response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that determined sections of New York's concealed carry statute were unconstitutional, (NYSRPA v. Bruen) Democrats in the New York State Legislature on Friday passed a slew of new restrictions affecting legal gun owners. There is an extensive list of hurdles including having applicants disclose their current and past social media accounts so the licensing officer could review them to see if anything the applicant may have posted would, in the mind of the licensing officer, be objectionable and disqualify the applicant. If an applicant clears all of the hurdles involved in obtaining a concealed carry permit, they would have to be aware of an extensive list of places where it would still be illegal for them to be armed. They include government buildings, schools, colleges and universities, medical facilities, churches, libraries, and entertainment venues such as libraries, theaters, arenas, and stadiums. Legal gun owners with concealed carry permits would also be prohibited from carrying in a park, on a playground, at a polling place, at a parade or a protest, or while using public transit. They also could not carry while in a bar, or even in a restaurant that serves alcohol.
In fact, under the new laws, they couldn't enter any private business or property with a legally registered gun, unless that business or property owner posted a sign which says they can. And even if they mistakenly carry someplace they shouldn't, they could be charged with a felony where, if convicted, they would lose their constitutional right to keep and bear arms. While it's long been established in the state's law that a felony record bars an individual from legally purchasing or processing a firearm, the new law would add several misdemeanors to the category of infractions that would disqualify an individual from owning a gun. This isn't even all of it! These people are not trying to protect you they're trying to control you and protect their power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeyKO-FYfNk
Direct Headline: NY Senate OKs bill barring guns in Times Square, requiring social media info for permit
The New York state Senate approved sweeping legislation Friday afternoon that would ban concealed weapons from so-called “sensitive locations” like Times Square, public transit and other venues — while requiring gun permit applicants to give the state information about their social media accounts as well as character references. ...The Assembly passed the bill Friday night and soon after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed it into law....Debate on the bill began early Friday, one day after the extraordinary legislative session called by Hochul began — a delay attributed to last-minute negotiations over a conceptual deal touted by the governor earlier in the week....
....“Hochul’s special session has been the perfect recap of her failed, brief term as Governor, marked with secrecy, uncertainty, and chaos. The losers of this process end up being law-abiding New Yorkers,” Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Suffolk), the GOP nominee for governor, said in a statement. ...The special session follows a controversial US Supreme Court decision last week that struck down a century-old state law requiring permit applicants to give a “proper cause” for wanting to pack heat....Democratic lawmakers vowed to tighten the gun permit application process following the Supreme Court decision to overturn New York’s regulation....
....Among other information, potential firearm owners would be asked to divulge all social media accounts maintained over the past three years as well as provide references attesting to their “good moral character.”...Permit applicants will also have to complete at least 16 hours of in-person training, while private businesses will be off-limits to firearms unless their owners post conspicuous signage indicating otherwise....Weapons will also be barred from places of worship, public transit, sports arenas, parks, libraries, government buildings, playgrounds, entertainment venues, protests and businesses that serve alcohol, among other venues....Future ammunition purchases will require background checks in the future under the new law, with information on the buyer’s “date, name, age, occupation and residence” entered into a state database, according to the legislation....
“They didn’t just go up to the line. They trampled on the Supreme Court decision,” said Tom King, president of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case....
By Zach Williams July 1, 2022 2:30pm
https://nypost.com/2022/07/01/new-york-bill-would-require-social-media-info-for-gun-carry-permit/
TWEET: Anne McCloy XX@XXAnneMcCloyNews
Anne: Do you have numbers to show that it’s the concealed carry permit holders that are committing crimes?
Hochul: I don’t need to have numbers. I don’t need to have a data point to say this. I know that I have a responsibility for this state to have sensible gun safety laws.
4:16 PM Jun 29, 2022
https://twitter.com/AnneMcCloyNews/status/1542285958703366146
Direct Headline: I’m a New York City Liberal, and I Want a Gun
I lived in New York for a decade without fearing for my personal safety. But in recent months, I have been terrified. ...More than five million American women alive today have reported being threatened with a gun, shot or shot at by an intimate partner, and more than half of the perpetrators of mass shootings in the past decade shot a family member, intimate partner or former intimate partner as part of their rampage. Every month, 70 women on average are shot and killed by an intimate partner. But states like mine make it legally cumbersome to defend yourself with a legally purchased handgun...If my life is ever in danger, I want to be able to protect myself with a gun. And now, thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, I am one step closer to carrying one....
....I also understand why some of my fellow liberals would like to ban guns outright. But guns are already prevalent among those who don’t follow the rules: Despite strong gun laws in my state and city, illegal trafficking abounds...The reality is that in addition to preventing abusers from owning guns, we must empower vulnerable citizens to protect themselves...For law-abiding New Yorkers, there is currently no swift and easy way to protect yourself in your own home with a handgun. Even if you have no criminal record, no history of mental illness and no desire to carry a gun outside of your home, you must apply for an expensive handgun license. On June 23, the Supreme Court struck down an additional requirement to demonstrate a heightened need, or “proper cause,” if you want to carry your gun in public....
An associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s Department of Public Management told me that based on anecdotal evidence, generally retired police officers, people who transport large sums of money, those who have an immediate and credible death threat and celebrities are more likely to be approved for licenses to carry handguns in public. And given the high cost of the application process, gun ownership is only really available to those with means....
...But the truth is that the world we live in is awash in illegal guns. Ghost guns, which are assembled from components bought online and are untraceable, are prevalent in coastal states with strict gun laws, and hundreds have been seized by the New York City Police Department in recent years. New York’s onerous gun licensing requirements deter law-abiding citizens from protecting themselves. And while city officials boast that gun arrests are at a 28-year high and shooting incidents were down last month, murder, rape, robbery and assault were all on the rise when compared with the same time last year.....
By Laura E. Adkins June 30, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/30/opinion/supreme-court-guns-new-york.html
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"The loss of First Amendment freedoms, for even minimal periods of time, unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury...."
- United States Supreme Court, Elrod v. Burns 1976
On June 23, 2022, SCOTUS reversed a US Court of Appeals’ decision, finding that New York’s proper cause requirement for obtaining an unrestricted license to have and carry a concealed pistol or revolver was unconstitutional. It violated the 14th Amendment by "preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in public." New York’s proper cause requirement had forced state residents to demonstrate a "special need" for self-protection distinguishable from that of the general public. After said individual passes all other requirements for a permit, it was then at a judge’s discretion to determine if an individual had "proper cause". Governor Hochul found the SCOTUS ruling completely unacceptable and incompatible with her political career designs and NY Senate Bill S51001 was introduced, passed, and signed in a mere 12 hours.
The problems? You have to surrender your social media accounts to be reviewed. Which encroaches on multiple First Amendment issues. Does Hochul believe she can have her minions arbitrarily reach out to the tech companies with your username and scoop up all the data and implied communications from your accounts, even deleted material? And let's not pretend Big Social Media and Big Tech, which lean hard activist radical left, wouldn't be all too happy to comply with those requests too. Does Hochul think she can require New Yorkers to have their personal information strictly tied to their posts online, or demand Big Tech to create NY specific algorithms to spot "threatening/illegal speech" and flag it for review? Does Hochul realize she's asking for a dystopian surveillance state? The Obama regime has shown that these kind of methods are typically used to track, hunt and punish political opponent first and foremost. And this idiot Hochul wants Americans, especially New Yorkers, to surrender to her this level of control over our data?
What's the end goal? (Well besides Hochul offer "fresh meat to her base" for reelection)? Make New Yorkers live in total fear over where they can carry firearms, and be unsure of when they’ll be charged with criminal possession of a firearm for walking into a “restricted” place by accident. The end result is law abiding citizens would simply not want to deal with the hassle, stress and threat and refuse to exercise their rights. Of course this avoids the out of control crime issues in NY right now by idiotic Team Blue pro-crime public policies and "bail reform" and Defund The Police. Thus if no law abiding New Yorkers can safely carry in public, even under the protection of Supreme Court supposedly, then the only people left with firearms will be the criminals.
And it appears that "off duty" police are not exempt from carrying while in these "restricted areas". Given the tens of thousands in the NYPD, and the difficulty in major cities holding onto law enforcement personnel who are quitting and retiring in droves over anti-law enforcement sentiment and policies, how does this help? If the concern is active/mass shooters, as Hochul has harped on before, why disarm off duty cops who might be the first effective gun on the scene in such a potential tragedy?
Of course, there will likely be an immediate injunction filed soon. As what Hochul and the NY Senate is doing spits in the face of the SCOTUS ruling. This will mostly like fast track into the 2nd Circuit Court Of Appeals or the NY Supreme Court and then the judges there will have to weigh their political alliances to Team Blue and Hochul or join in facing the inevitable wrath of SCOTUS as they apply more and more strict scrutiny to invasive Team Blue legal overreach only designed to politically capitalize on a wedge issue in the national daily media cycle.
But consider the broad overreach here -
any place, conveyance, or vehicle used for public transportation or public transit, subway cars, train cars, buses, ferries, railroad, omnibus, marine or aviation transportation; or any facility used for or in connection with service in the transportation of passengers, airports, train stations, subway and rail stations, and bus terminals - where are you going to go in New York that isn't restricted?
Of course Hochul's action are coordinated with the DNC and the Biden Administration. As they were in California where AG Rob Bonta doxxed gun owners. And why did he do that? Roe V Wade was about the battle over the "right to privacy" as a pathway to abortion rights. So Bonta decided to violate literally every possible ethical standard in the book to torch all Golden State gun owners rights to privacy in response. Never mind that all criminals now know whose homes to target and rob to find more firearms to commit even more violent crimes.
I haven't been to my place in Brooklyn since the pandemic started, but my taxes pay the salaries of these nimrods. Both Bonta and Hochul. All she cares about is reelection, the rights of actual American citizens be damned. What about the entire concept of liberty? What about the entire concept of government accountability? And Hochul has admitted in a press conference that facts have no place in her gutless policies if they don’t immediately confirm to her personal biases or risks her personal political career.
And none of her efforts nor time nor work nor energy nor focus here is on making the lives of everyday working class New Yorkers better. Crime has exploded in New York and even despite having the strictest gun laws in the entire country. How about fixing that problem instead? You can't enable career criminals, let lawlessness reign and kneecap your law enforcement agencies and then demand all New Yorkers be disarmed to be left out as prey.
But Kathy Hochul doesn't care if New Yorkers are prey. She doesn't see them as prey. Like most of other Team Blue woke elitist grifters, she just sees them as cattle.
I'll leave this here for others to discuss.
In response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that determined sections of New York's concealed carry statute were unconstitutional, (NYSRPA v. Bruen) Democrats in the New York State Legislature on Friday passed a slew of new restrictions affecting legal gun owners. There is an extensive list of hurdles including having applicants disclose their current and past social media accounts so the licensing officer could review them to see if anything the applicant may have posted would, in the mind of the licensing officer, be objectionable and disqualify the applicant. If an applicant clears all of the hurdles involved in obtaining a concealed carry permit, they would have to be aware of an extensive list of places where it would still be illegal for them to be armed. They include government buildings, schools, colleges and universities, medical facilities, churches, libraries, and entertainment venues such as libraries, theaters, arenas, and stadiums. Legal gun owners with concealed carry permits would also be prohibited from carrying in a park, on a playground, at a polling place, at a parade or a protest, or while using public transit. They also could not carry while in a bar, or even in a restaurant that serves alcohol.
In fact, under the new laws, they couldn't enter any private business or property with a legally registered gun, unless that business or property owner posted a sign which says they can. And even if they mistakenly carry someplace they shouldn't, they could be charged with a felony where, if convicted, they would lose their constitutional right to keep and bear arms. While it's long been established in the state's law that a felony record bars an individual from legally purchasing or processing a firearm, the new law would add several misdemeanors to the category of infractions that would disqualify an individual from owning a gun. This isn't even all of it! These people are not trying to protect you they're trying to control you and protect their power.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeyKO-FYfNk
Direct Headline: NY Senate OKs bill barring guns in Times Square, requiring social media info for permit
The New York state Senate approved sweeping legislation Friday afternoon that would ban concealed weapons from so-called “sensitive locations” like Times Square, public transit and other venues — while requiring gun permit applicants to give the state information about their social media accounts as well as character references. ...The Assembly passed the bill Friday night and soon after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed it into law....Debate on the bill began early Friday, one day after the extraordinary legislative session called by Hochul began — a delay attributed to last-minute negotiations over a conceptual deal touted by the governor earlier in the week....
....“Hochul’s special session has been the perfect recap of her failed, brief term as Governor, marked with secrecy, uncertainty, and chaos. The losers of this process end up being law-abiding New Yorkers,” Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-Suffolk), the GOP nominee for governor, said in a statement. ...The special session follows a controversial US Supreme Court decision last week that struck down a century-old state law requiring permit applicants to give a “proper cause” for wanting to pack heat....Democratic lawmakers vowed to tighten the gun permit application process following the Supreme Court decision to overturn New York’s regulation....
....Among other information, potential firearm owners would be asked to divulge all social media accounts maintained over the past three years as well as provide references attesting to their “good moral character.”...Permit applicants will also have to complete at least 16 hours of in-person training, while private businesses will be off-limits to firearms unless their owners post conspicuous signage indicating otherwise....Weapons will also be barred from places of worship, public transit, sports arenas, parks, libraries, government buildings, playgrounds, entertainment venues, protests and businesses that serve alcohol, among other venues....Future ammunition purchases will require background checks in the future under the new law, with information on the buyer’s “date, name, age, occupation and residence” entered into a state database, according to the legislation....
“They didn’t just go up to the line. They trampled on the Supreme Court decision,” said Tom King, president of the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association, the plaintiff in the Supreme Court case....
By Zach Williams July 1, 2022 2:30pm
https://nypost.com/2022/07/01/new-york-bill-would-require-social-media-info-for-gun-carry-permit/
TWEET: Anne McCloy XX@XXAnneMcCloyNews
Anne: Do you have numbers to show that it’s the concealed carry permit holders that are committing crimes?
Hochul: I don’t need to have numbers. I don’t need to have a data point to say this. I know that I have a responsibility for this state to have sensible gun safety laws.
4:16 PM Jun 29, 2022
https://twitter.com/AnneMcCloyNews/status/1542285958703366146
Direct Headline: I’m a New York City Liberal, and I Want a Gun
I lived in New York for a decade without fearing for my personal safety. But in recent months, I have been terrified. ...More than five million American women alive today have reported being threatened with a gun, shot or shot at by an intimate partner, and more than half of the perpetrators of mass shootings in the past decade shot a family member, intimate partner or former intimate partner as part of their rampage. Every month, 70 women on average are shot and killed by an intimate partner. But states like mine make it legally cumbersome to defend yourself with a legally purchased handgun...If my life is ever in danger, I want to be able to protect myself with a gun. And now, thanks to the Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen, I am one step closer to carrying one....
....I also understand why some of my fellow liberals would like to ban guns outright. But guns are already prevalent among those who don’t follow the rules: Despite strong gun laws in my state and city, illegal trafficking abounds...The reality is that in addition to preventing abusers from owning guns, we must empower vulnerable citizens to protect themselves...For law-abiding New Yorkers, there is currently no swift and easy way to protect yourself in your own home with a handgun. Even if you have no criminal record, no history of mental illness and no desire to carry a gun outside of your home, you must apply for an expensive handgun license. On June 23, the Supreme Court struck down an additional requirement to demonstrate a heightened need, or “proper cause,” if you want to carry your gun in public....
An associate professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s Department of Public Management told me that based on anecdotal evidence, generally retired police officers, people who transport large sums of money, those who have an immediate and credible death threat and celebrities are more likely to be approved for licenses to carry handguns in public. And given the high cost of the application process, gun ownership is only really available to those with means....
...But the truth is that the world we live in is awash in illegal guns. Ghost guns, which are assembled from components bought online and are untraceable, are prevalent in coastal states with strict gun laws, and hundreds have been seized by the New York City Police Department in recent years. New York’s onerous gun licensing requirements deter law-abiding citizens from protecting themselves. And while city officials boast that gun arrests are at a 28-year high and shooting incidents were down last month, murder, rape, robbery and assault were all on the rise when compared with the same time last year.....
By Laura E. Adkins June 30, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/30/opinion/supreme-court-guns-new-york.html
************
"The loss of First Amendment freedoms, for even minimal periods of time, unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury...."
- United States Supreme Court, Elrod v. Burns 1976
On June 23, 2022, SCOTUS reversed a US Court of Appeals’ decision, finding that New York’s proper cause requirement for obtaining an unrestricted license to have and carry a concealed pistol or revolver was unconstitutional. It violated the 14th Amendment by "preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in public." New York’s proper cause requirement had forced state residents to demonstrate a "special need" for self-protection distinguishable from that of the general public. After said individual passes all other requirements for a permit, it was then at a judge’s discretion to determine if an individual had "proper cause". Governor Hochul found the SCOTUS ruling completely unacceptable and incompatible with her political career designs and NY Senate Bill S51001 was introduced, passed, and signed in a mere 12 hours.
The problems? You have to surrender your social media accounts to be reviewed. Which encroaches on multiple First Amendment issues. Does Hochul believe she can have her minions arbitrarily reach out to the tech companies with your username and scoop up all the data and implied communications from your accounts, even deleted material? And let's not pretend Big Social Media and Big Tech, which lean hard activist radical left, wouldn't be all too happy to comply with those requests too. Does Hochul think she can require New Yorkers to have their personal information strictly tied to their posts online, or demand Big Tech to create NY specific algorithms to spot "threatening/illegal speech" and flag it for review? Does Hochul realize she's asking for a dystopian surveillance state? The Obama regime has shown that these kind of methods are typically used to track, hunt and punish political opponent first and foremost. And this idiot Hochul wants Americans, especially New Yorkers, to surrender to her this level of control over our data?
What's the end goal? (Well besides Hochul offer "fresh meat to her base" for reelection)? Make New Yorkers live in total fear over where they can carry firearms, and be unsure of when they’ll be charged with criminal possession of a firearm for walking into a “restricted” place by accident. The end result is law abiding citizens would simply not want to deal with the hassle, stress and threat and refuse to exercise their rights. Of course this avoids the out of control crime issues in NY right now by idiotic Team Blue pro-crime public policies and "bail reform" and Defund The Police. Thus if no law abiding New Yorkers can safely carry in public, even under the protection of Supreme Court supposedly, then the only people left with firearms will be the criminals.
And it appears that "off duty" police are not exempt from carrying while in these "restricted areas". Given the tens of thousands in the NYPD, and the difficulty in major cities holding onto law enforcement personnel who are quitting and retiring in droves over anti-law enforcement sentiment and policies, how does this help? If the concern is active/mass shooters, as Hochul has harped on before, why disarm off duty cops who might be the first effective gun on the scene in such a potential tragedy?
Of course, there will likely be an immediate injunction filed soon. As what Hochul and the NY Senate is doing spits in the face of the SCOTUS ruling. This will mostly like fast track into the 2nd Circuit Court Of Appeals or the NY Supreme Court and then the judges there will have to weigh their political alliances to Team Blue and Hochul or join in facing the inevitable wrath of SCOTUS as they apply more and more strict scrutiny to invasive Team Blue legal overreach only designed to politically capitalize on a wedge issue in the national daily media cycle.
But consider the broad overreach here -
any place, conveyance, or vehicle used for public transportation or public transit, subway cars, train cars, buses, ferries, railroad, omnibus, marine or aviation transportation; or any facility used for or in connection with service in the transportation of passengers, airports, train stations, subway and rail stations, and bus terminals - where are you going to go in New York that isn't restricted?Of course Hochul's action are coordinated with the DNC and the Biden Administration. As they were in California where AG Rob Bonta doxxed gun owners. And why did he do that? Roe V Wade was about the battle over the "right to privacy" as a pathway to abortion rights. So Bonta decided to violate literally every possible ethical standard in the book to torch all Golden State gun owners rights to privacy in response. Never mind that all criminals now know whose homes to target and rob to find more firearms to commit even more violent crimes.
I haven't been to my place in Brooklyn since the pandemic started, but my taxes pay the salaries of these nimrods. Both Bonta and Hochul. All she cares about is reelection, the rights of actual American citizens be damned. What about the entire concept of liberty? What about the entire concept of government accountability? And Hochul has admitted in a press conference that facts have no place in her gutless policies if they don’t immediately confirm to her personal biases or risks her personal political career.
And none of her efforts nor time nor work nor energy nor focus here is on making the lives of everyday working class New Yorkers better. Crime has exploded in New York and even despite having the strictest gun laws in the entire country. How about fixing that problem instead? You can't enable career criminals, let lawlessness reign and kneecap your law enforcement agencies and then demand all New Yorkers be disarmed to be left out as prey.
But Kathy Hochul doesn't care if New Yorkers are prey. She doesn't see them as prey. Like most of other Team Blue woke elitist grifters, she just sees them as cattle.
I'll leave this here for others to discuss.
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