A lawyer challenging provisions of New York’s new gun law argued that the state restricts people from carrying weapons in too many places, telling a judge the rules affect not only people on busy NYC streets but an upstate pastor on his church’s property
The wide-ranging state law, approved after the high court's so-called Bruen decision, includes a long list of “sensitive locations” off-limits as of Sept. 1 for weapons, such as schools, airports, public parks, bars and New York City’s famously bustling Times Square.
Stamboulieh is representing six gun owners from upstate New York, including a pastor in Oswego County who has had a carry permit since 2014. The lawsuit claims the new law, which defines places of worship as sensitive locations, makes it illegal for Pastor Joseph Mann to be armed at church and the connected parsonage where he lives.
When Suddaby then asked his whether the state could bar Mann from carrying a weapon into his church, Thompson replied: “I think there is a deep historical tradition of prohibiting guns in houses of worship in the United States.” Suddaby will decide whether to issue a temporary restraining order on provisions of the law. There are several federal lawsuits pending against New York's gun law. But Suddaby has already pointed out potential constitutional issues with the new law in ruling on a previous lawsuit, which was dismissed because plaintiffs were found to lack standing.
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