It won’t be passing Constitutional carry anytime soon, but New York — particularly New York City — is seeing a surge in gun purchases and jam-packed permit courses required by the state just for Gothamites to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
Gun store retailers are working overtime to quell anxious and worried residents of the nation’s largest city, even as those customers are shocked to realize they aren’t able to walk in, purchase a firearm, and leave with their new gun that same day – or week, or even month.
And who can blame them?
Gun control politicians, long in control in the Empire State, have passed so many restrictions on law-abiding New Yorkers to exercise their Constitutional rights that far too many simply, out of frustration, give up. Those roadblocks, in essence, deny New Yorkers their ability to keep and bear arms and, at a time when many rush to the licensed gun retailer, the backlogs and bottlenecks can be jarring — especially for first-time buyers. Erecting barriers to the exercise of Second Amendment rights to frustrate citizens into just giving up is the intent of this regulatory scheme.
By Larry Keane

