{"id":1536592,"date":"2022-07-02T12:49:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T16:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1536592"},"modified":"2022-07-02T12:49:33","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T16:49:33","slug":"new-york-governor-signs-expansive-new-legislation-limiting-where-people-can-carry-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-york-governor-signs-expansive-new-legislation-limiting-where-people-can-carry-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Governor Signs Expansive New Legislation Limiting Where People Can Carry Guns"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-york-governor-signs-expansive-new-legislation-limiting-where-people-can-carry-guns%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1536592&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/kathy-hochul\">Kathy Hochul<\/a> (D-NY) signed expansive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/gun-control\">gun<\/a> legislation on Friday night banning people from carrying guns in a litany of \u201csensitive locations,\u201d including Times Square and churches throughout <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/new-york\">New York<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The restrictive legislation comes just a week after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/supreme-court\">Supreme Court<\/a> struck down 100-year-old restrictions on concealed carry in New York.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile this ruling issued by the Supreme Court\u2019s conservative majority invalidates the concealed carry permit restrictions, the decision allows states to issue licensing requirements for carrying a firearm,\u201d the New York State Senate Majority said in a statement. \u201cIn light of this decision, the Senate Majority is taking action to address the invalidated provisions and counter the potential effects of this ruling on public safety.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Areas where guns will <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/york-lawmakers-introduce-bill-ban-guns-times-square\/story?id=86071477\">not<\/a> be allowed to be carried include Times Square, churches, bars, restaurants, airports, public parks, subways, trains, buses, ferries, schools, libraries, public parks, zoos, homeless shelters, and private property without permission of the property owner.<\/p>\n<p>New York Republican gubernatorial candidate and Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-NY) said Hochul was targeting law-abiding New Yorkers with the legislation in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/lee-zeldin-calls-kathy-hochul-targeting-law-abiding-citizens-ny-gun-law\">interview<\/a> on Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, what they\u2019re doing with this action today up in Albany is targeting the law-abiding New Yorker. I don\u2019t think they\u2019re making New York more safe; they\u2019re making New York less safe,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re creating these locations as targets because now, as a criminal, if you wanted to carry out one of your acts of targeting someone with an illegal firearm, you know that you\u2019re likely to encounter less resistance because the only people who care about these laws passed today are the law-abiding citizens,\u201d Zeldin added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new restrictions on where guns can be carried also came as Democrat-dominated New York pushed through legislation that included a provision making those applying for gun permits to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-york-to-screen-gun-applicants-social-media-accounts-in-wake-of-scotus-2a-rebuke\">list their social media accounts<\/a> so that they can be vetted for \u201ccharacter and conduct.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Prior to signing the legislation, Hochul <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/07\/01\/new-york-bill-would-require-social-media-info-for-gun-carry-permit\/\">said<\/a> that the gun control legislation was \u201cthe embodiment of what it means to be an American. In honor of our Fourth of July weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans and gun rights advocates warned about the constitutional implications of the gun legislation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>New York GOP chairman Nick Langworthy called Hochul a \u201cnational embarrassment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may be the start of Independence Day weekend but New Yorkers\u2019 constitutional freedoms were just trampled on by Kathy Hochul and her pawns in the legislature. This bill is a political charade that makes New Yorkers less safe,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/nygop.org\/statement-from-nygop-chairman-nick-langworthy-on-hochul-democrats-special-session\/\">said<\/a>. \u201cOnly under the insanity of New York Democrats can you get out of jail free for possessing an illegal firearm, but be targeted by the government for being a law-abiding citizen exercising your constitutional rights.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Kathy Hochul (D-NY) signed expansive gun legislation on Friday night banning people from carrying guns in a litany of \u201csensitive locations,\u201d including Times Square and churches throughout New York.\u00a0 The restrictive legislation comes just a week after the Supreme Court struck down 100-year-old restrictions on concealed carry in New York.\u00a0 \u201cWhile this ruling issued &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1536604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1536604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}