New Yorkers applying for concealed carry permits will no longer be required to share their social media accounts with police, according to a settlement proposed in federal court last week.
State officials required concealed carry applicants to provide a list of their social media accounts as part of a sweeping gun safety law in 2022. Gov. Kathy Hochul signed the Concealed Carry Improvement Act days after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down New York’s prior gun licensing regulations, finding it gave law enforcement too much power to subjectively decide who should get permits to carry guns.
Hochul said at the time that social media reviews would be part of a more comprehensive application process. …
Attorney General Letitia James said in a statement that the settlement “protects New York’s nation-leading gun safety laws that require licenses to own a firearm.” She did not say why her office decided to stop pursuing its legal defense of the social media requirement.
“We will continue fighting this case and defending our laws that keep New Yorkers safe from gun violence,” she said. …
Peter Tilem, an attorney who represents many gun owners in Second Amendment cases, said it was unclear how the state would decide whose social media posts were too problematic to get concealed carry permits.
“Who was going to determine whether what a licensing officer saw on that social media account disqualified them from exercising their constitutional right or not,” he said. “What was the criteria going to be?”
Tilem said the proposed settlement suggests the state felt it could no longer defend the social media provision in court.
— Samantha Max in NY won’t ask gun permit applicants for social media under court settlement
The Second Amendment has never ever been a “big tent” of inclusive people. You have to be honest. The stereotype of the typical second amendment supporter, is they are a christian.
White, black or whatever, but they are a christian.
And you’re not required to be one. In order to exercise your first and second amendment civil rights.
President Eisenhower in his final address to the nation said, “the enemies of the United States are atheistic in nature.”
The @the”ist, h0:m0sex:u@ls, the J00s, and the Mus:lims too. Very few of them support the 1st or the 2nd amendment.
They’re the ones telling you it’s a waste of time to vote. They’re the ones saying that the two parties are the same. Or they simply refuse to stop voting for a democrat.
They supported the government, forcing houses of worship to be closed. During the so called “plan-demic” in 2020. And at the same time supporting BLM protests and pride par@des.
The 1st amendment was not written for your pornography. The 2nd amendment was not written so you could go hunting.
You don’t get to do, whatever want to do, when you have freedom. It always comes with responsibility and consequences. But over a thousand years ago the government supported having “bread and circuses” for the population.
And in the book “1984” the government supported giving “free” beer to the population. Now in the 21st-century the government, supports giving “free” marijuana, “free” fentanyl, and now “free” beer to the population.
Fictional governments or real governments, will always use distraction to control the population.
And they keep voting for people like Brandon Johnson (black) in Chicago or Maura Healey in (les,bi@n) Massachusetts.
They don’t care about “the content of their character”. They only care about skin color and what type of sex act they perform.
And if they really do support responsibility and consequences, then they are kicked out of their group. And then you are called a “right wing f@sc:ist.”