Texas works to liberate New York City

[jmorris]

From the AG:
Attorney General Ken Paxton today joined a 17-state friend-of-the-court brief to defend the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. The case challenges New York City’s unconstitutional gun law, which denies millions of Americans their constitutionally-protected right to own a firearm.

New York City requires a costly and restrictive “premises permit” to own a personal handgun for self-defense. The permit prohibits taking the weapon outside the home other than to practice at one of the city’s shooting ranges and prohibits leaving the state with the weapon. An expensive “carry” permit is required to remove a weapon from a home for other purposes and is almost impossible for regular Americans to obtain.

“When municipalities like New York City criminalize basic elements of a constitutional right, they put our entire constitution in danger,” Attorney General Paxton said. “The Second Amendment is foundational to preserving our republic and cannot be so restricted as to render it meaningless.”

In the brief, Attorney General Paxton and the multistate coalition argue that while city and state governments have an interest in public safety and crime prevention, New York City offered no evidence that demonstrated its regulations actually enhance public safety and crime prevention. In fact, its restrictive scheme has the opposite effect by arbitrarily limiting a gun owner’s ability to become proficient with their own weapon, requiring thousands of people to buy additional weapons and causing thousands of weapons to be left in unoccupied houses.

Louisiana authored the brief. Joining Louisiana and Texas on the brief are the attorneys general of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Kansas, Michigan, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Utah, West Virginia and Wisconsin, along with the governors of Mississippi and Kentucky.

View a copy of the friend-of-the-court brief here: https://bit.ly/2OgxOLo

[jason812]

A prohibits leaving the state with the weapon

So along with violating the 2nd Amendment, the city is trying to regulate interstate travel? Or is the city looking out for it's subjects by proactively keeping them from traveling to NJ with a firearm?

[RoyGBiv]

Elections have consequences. Hopefully this helps put an end to "May Issue".

[rotor]

Virtually no place to train in NYC even if they did allow it. As a kid I used to shoot at a range in Manhattan and had a Marlin .22LR bolt action rifle. Traveled the subways with that rifle to get to the one range that was available. Don't remember what it cost to shoot but I was poor and only went once. Perhaps if the law changed there might be facilities that open. We still need reciprocity and that is more important than NYC gun laws.