New York Concealed Carry Law Faces Legal Challenge

By Tom Knighton

The Second Amendment clearly states that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. However, that simple phrasing has created so much debate for some reason. Over and over again, lawmakers create laws that clearly infringe on the right to keep and bear arms. Perhaps few do so as egregiously as “may issue” permitting laws.

Requiring people to get a permit simply to exercise a constitutionally protected right is bad enough, but “may issue” laws take that process and make it more onerous by adding the requirement that someone has to justify wanting a permit in order to be granted permission.

Now, New York’s “may issue” provision is facing a legal challenge by someone who was turned down for a carry permit.

Refused a permit was Robert Nash, who joined with the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association — the NRA’s state affiliate — in filing a legal challenge against the state’s pistol permit laws and practice. Named as defendants in the suit are State Police Superintendent George Beech and state Supreme Court Justice Richard McNally, the latter of which refused to issue Nash a permit because, while the man passed the needed background checks, …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms