New Yorkers Don’t Need to Disclose Social Media Accounts to Carry A Firearm, Federal Court Rules

New York Post

New Yorkers don’t have to give state officials a list of their social media accounts in order to apply for concealed carry permits, a federal appeals court ruled Friday, striking down portions of the Empire State’s 2022 gun law.

The 261-page ruling, handed down by a three-judge panel on the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, also blocked New York from enforcing restrictions on carrying concealed firearms on private property that is accessible to the public, as well as restriction on carrying in houses of worship.

“Disclosing one’s social media accounts — including ones that are maintained pseudonymously — forfeits anonymity in that realm. Conditioning a concealed carry license on such a disclosure imposes a burden on the right to bear arms that is without sufficient analogue in our nation’s history or tradition of firearms regulation,” the judges wrote in their ruling, referencing a standard set by the Supreme Court in last year’s New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen case, which overturned the state’s century-old law restricting the carrying of concealed firearms.

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