NY Gun Permit Requirements Can Be Enforced, Says Second Circuit

The Second Circuit on Friday concluded that New York State’s gun license requirements are likely constitutional and declined to prohibit the state from enforcing its licensing law.

Plaintiffs—Suffolk County residents who applied for pistol licenses and a firearms training instructor—haven’t demonstrated a “likelihood of success on the facial constitutional challenges” to the requirements that applicants have “good moral character,” meet with an officer in-person for an interview, provide character references, and complete 18 hours of firearms training, Judge Joseph F. Bianco wrote.

Bianco—quoting a Second Circuit decision on a separate, similar case—noted that the denial of an injunction doesn’t determine ...