Why is NY Using Prejudice to Justify New Gun Restrictions?

2 years ago
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After being told by SCOTUS all gun laws must be rooted in the text, history, and tradition of the law, New York state found some old laws which restricted gun ownership... for minorities. They now want to use it to limit New Yorkers conceal carry abilities!

Sources:

1756 NY law against arming Catholics: https://www.gunowners.org/wp-content/uploads/Disarming-Papists.pdf

1763 NY law against arming Native Americans: https://www.gunowners.org/wp-content/uploads/Act-to-Prohibit-the-Selling-of-Guns-Gunpowder-or-Other-Warlike-Stores-to-the-Indians.pdf

Documentation of anti-Catholic attacks: https://www.usccb.org/committees/religious-liberty/Backgrounder-Attacks-on-Catholic-Churches-in-US

The Atlantic Anti-Catholic op-ed: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/radical-traditionalist-catholic-christian-rosary-weapon/671122/

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