NY Public Housing Tenants Can Keep Guns Despite Ban in Contract

A clause in a New York public housing rental agreement that bans tenants from having firearms on the property is likely unconstitutional and was therefore preliminarily enjoined by a federal court.

Three Cortland Housing Authority tenants had claimed that the ban violated their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in their homes for their personal protection. The tenants, along with The Second Amendment Foundation, sought a temporary restraining order and to enjoin the CHA from enforcing a firearms ban in its tenant’s lease agreement.

The CHA’s attempt to compare the ban to the permissible regulation of who may ...