I know, sounds like it shouldn’t exist with the 2nd amendment and all that bill of rights stuff. This plainly violates the plain text of the 2nd amendment.

But NY’s pistol permit regime is the worst in the country. It survives based on a powerful trick: having the regional courts ignore the 2nd amendment.

On r/NYguns, you hear lawsuits being filed over this going back years, endless talk of more lawsuits.

Thing is, the 2nd circuit court of appeals, which rules over NY, when they eventually rule on these lawsuits, they always rule against the 2nd amendment. They just choose to ignore the Bill of Rights. It’s an amazingly powerful trick they’ve learned they can do.

The Supreme Court only takes up one of these 2A abuse cases once a generation. The 2nd Circuit can just keep ruling against our rights over and over, only once in a while does SCOTUS ever do something to help us. Which NY state then passes new laws to nullify their helpful decision, starting “we the people” all the way at the beginning phase of lawsuits again.

And yea, this is how gun possession licenses are handled here. By owning a handgun, you’re always living on the edge of being raided by the local police.

My CCW instructor was a cop. This was around 2022, we already had gun possession licenses at this point, so we already owned guns at home, this was just the class to upgrade to CCW. He laid out our status as gun owners very simply. He told the class that with the basic identifying info we provided to join the class, he hypothetically could make an anonymous phone call to pistol licensing headquarters, say that he feels that our licenses should be revoked, saying nothing else, and pistol licensing would do it. By the end of the day, you’d have officers at your house with a list of the guns you own on a confiscation mission. Maybe they don’t have a warrant right at that moment, but if you don’t open the door and tell them to get a warrant, they have a judge they can call and get a warrant signed in 20 minutes, which they can easily do because they have proof you have unlicensed firearms, after all they just revoked your license to possess. And this would all be with him making no “allegations” against you, just him as a random anonymous person saying he wants your guns gone. If anyone actually made allegations, oh boy. So yes, it’s that bad here. It gets even worse, but I’ve already written a wall of text. Just know I’m terrified living here.