Senator Reichlin-Melnick and the Senate Majority Take Action to Address Supreme Court Ruling Invalidating New York’s Concealed Carry Law

ROCKLAND/WESTCHESTER:  During a special session just before the holiday weekend, the Senate passed legislation in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s NYSRPA v. Bruen decision. 

Senator Elijah Reichlin-Melnick said, “In response to last week’s ruling by activist Supreme Court Justices to invalidate New York’s 100-year-old gun law restricting concealed carrying of firearms, my colleagues and I in the Senate acted swiftly to protect New Yorkers.”

The Supreme Court ruled that New York’s 100-year-old law restricting concealed carrying of a firearm infringes on an individual’s Second Amendment right to carry a weapon in public for the purpose of self-defense. While this ruling issued by the Supreme Court’s conservative majority invalidates the concealed carry permit restrictions, the decision allows states to issue licensing requirements for carrying a firearm. 

 This legislative package enhances licensing requirements for concealed carry permit applicants, adds new provisions for sensitive areas where the permit holder is prohibited from carrying a concealed firearm, enhances safe storage requirements to apply if a minor under the age of 18 lives in the home, and makes technical changes to the body armor law. Additionally, this legislative package establishes New York as a “point of contact” state.

Click here for the package of bills passed by the Senate this spring to strengthen New York’s robust gun safety regulation in the wake of the tragic mass shootings at Buffalo and Uvalde.