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Gun Owners of America (GOA), the Gun Owners Foundation, and several gun owners in February filed a lawsuit against the New York State Police and other parties for banning out-of-state residents from obtaining concealed carry permits or honoring concealed carry permits from other states.
The New York City Police Department (NYPD) last week issued emergency rules to allow non-residents to apply for concealed carry permits.
“This is great news for the untold millions of Americans who either work or visit New York every year,” said Erich Pratt, senior vice president of GOA. “It’s critical that everyone can exercise their inherent right to self-defense, but until now, anti-gunners in New York denied most Americans that basic right.”
In the rules document, NYPD cited (PDF) New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen (2022), in which the U.S. Supreme Court struck down New York’s requirement that residents show a “proper cause” to carry handguns outside their homes.
The high court held that the proper-cause requirement “violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms in public for self defense.”
Justice Clarence Thomas, who wrote the majority opinion, said that the right to bear arms is not “a second-class right.”
NYPD issued the emergency rules to be consistent with Bruen.
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