![]() ![]() 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. Stamboulieh is representing six gun owners from upstate New York, including a pastor in Oswego County who has had a carry permit since 2014. New York took the opposite approach: locked it down tight,” attorney Stephen Stamboulieh argued. "Everyone that could carry lawfully prior to 9/1, Bruen was supposed to expand the Second Amendment. 1 for weapons, such as schools, airports, public parks, bars and New York City’s famously bustling Times Square. 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. Supreme Court struck down a state law that said people had to demonstrate an unusual threat to their safety to get a license to carry a handgun outside their homes. ![]() ![]() Kathy Hochul and fellow Democrats in the Legislature approved the law this summer, shortly after the U.S. The argument was made during a hearing before Judge Glenn Suddaby in Syracuse as he decides whether to temporarily order a hold on provisions of the law while the federal challenge to its constitutionality continues. 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 federal judge Thursday the rules affect not only people on busy Manhattan streets but an upstate pastor on his church's property. ![]()
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