#2A - Judge Smacks Down New York’s Attempt to Create Gun-free State
District Court Judge John Sinatra, a 2018 Trump nominee and a member of the Federalist Society, shut the door on efforts by anti-gun radicals populating New York State’s legislature to turn the entire state into a “gun free zone.”
That New York legislation arose out of an emergency session called by New York Governor Kathy Hochul following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Bruen (New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen). Bruen declared that New York’s “proper cause” requirement to obtain a concealed-carry permit was unconstitutional. That ruling also declared that laws infringing on the Second Amendment could only be sustained if the government passing them could show a “historical analogy” to laws from the time of the Republic’s founding.
The law, misnamed the “Concealed Carry Improvement Act,” or CCIA, essentially turned the entire state into a gun-free zone. It prevented anyone carrying a firearm…