MORE BRUEN FALLOUT

By Bob Walsh

 

 The authorities have to presume this guy is of "good moral character."

A federal judge in Syracuse, N.Y. just thru out part of the new FUCK YOU TO THE SECOND AMENDMENT LAW, officially known as the Concealed Carry Improvement Act.

Applicants are, or at least were, required to show "good moral character" and supply a list of current and past social media accounts.  There is, or at least was, an EXTENSIVE list of "sensitive" areas where firearms were not permitted, including Times Square, which is a freaking public road.

Judge Glen Suddaby of the Northern District of New York wrote a 53-page decision in the case of six New York residents who asserted that the new law is at least as restrictive, and unconstitutional, as the old law.

The judge agreed that there seemed to be no constitutional way the state can restrict carrying of concealed weapons in Times Square.  He also opined that "...shouldering an applicant with the burden of showing that he or she is of such 'good moral character' (in the face of a de facto presumption that he or she is not) is akin to shouldering the applicant with the burden that he or she has a special need for self-protection distinguishable from that of the general community."

He further opined that New York State has further entrenched itself as a shall-not-issue jurisdiction."