Gun owners again lost a challenge to New York state gun laws restricting open carry and requiring a permit to conceal carry in New York City, with the Second Circuit saying Friday that the regulations pass muster under recent US Supreme Court precedent.
Each of the regulations “falls within our Nation’s historical tradition of gun regulations and, thus, does not violate the Second Amendment,” the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit said as it denied a request to block them while an underlying lawsuit is pending.
The regulations bar carrying firearms in Times Square in New York City, ...