New York Gun Ban in Urban Public Parks Upheld at Second Circuit

New York’s ban on firearms in urban public parks was upheld Monday by the Second Circuit.

The federal appeals court also affirmed a district court’s ruling that a provision in the state’s Concealed Carry Improvement Act prohibiting gun possession on “private property open to the public” was unconstitutional.

New York adequately demonstrated “a long, unbroken history of prohibiting gun carriage in urban public parks,” according to an opinion signed by Judge Joseph F. Bianco.

The opinion didn’t address the state law’s application in rural parks, because that issue hadn’t been raised before the US District Court for the Western ...