NEW YORK (TIP): A federal judge on Thursday blocked large portions of New York’s new gun law, finding that the expansive restrictions on the public carrying of guns created by the measure were unconstitutional. The order, issued by Judge Glenn T. Suddaby, found that the state’s new restrictions on the carrying of guns in public trampled on the rights of New Yorkers. The state’s new gun law, passed this summer, imposed elaborate restrictions on the carrying of weapons in “sensitive places,” including Times Square. In a 53-page order, the judge, Glenn T. Suddaby of the Northern District, said he would block the state from enforcing a number of the new law’s provisions, writing that New York was trampling on the constitutional right to bear arms. But he agreed to a three-business-day stay of his order, pending an emergency appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. That court could take the issue up and grant a significantly longer stay of the order — but if it does not, the order will go into effect. If the Second Circuit does allow New York’s gun law to remain in place, the plaintiffs, a group of six New York gun owners who are members of the Gun Owners of America, would consider an immediate appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a spokesman for the organization.

Erich Pratt, the organization’s senior vice president, said in a statement that Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York and Mayor Eric Adams of New York City had “lied and misrepresented the Second Amendment to the courts, putting New Yorkers at a great disadvantage in the midst of rising crime.”

(Source: New York Times)