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New Yorkers Are Finally Learning How Hard the City Makes Gun Ownership by Scott Witner

Gun shops and instructors are slammed with residents trying to navigate the state’s maze of requirements just to exercise a basic constitutional right.

What many first-time buyers are discovering is that they can’t simply walk into a store, buy a gun, and walk out. Not that day. Not that week. Sometimes not even that year. The delays and layers of red tape are by design. New York’s political class has spent decades building a system that frustrates lawful citizens into giving up.

Fear Is Driving the Surge

After the Supreme Court struck down New York’s restrictive “may issue” carry scheme in Bruen, interest skyrocketed. But the rush started earlier. Crime spiked during the pandemic. Riots and looting hit the city. Police budgets were cut. Cashless bail kept violent offenders on the street. Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s policies turned the revolving door even faster. Add a wave of officer retirements, and many residents decided they were on their own.

Then came October 7, 2023. The Hamas attacks on Israel, paired with a rise in antisemitic crime at home, pushed many Jewish New Yorkers to start the permit process immediately. The election of avowed anti-gun, anti-police mayor Zorhan Mamdani sent another shockwave through the city. Police retirements spiked again.

Before Bruen, fewer than 100 New Yorkers per month applied for a carry permit. After Bruen, the monthly average climbed to 400–600. After October 7, applications hit an all-time record of more than 1,270 in a single month. Since then, 700–800 residents are applying monthly.

The New Gun Owner Is No Longer Who New York Politicians Pretend

The last several years have reshaped America’s gun-owning population. New York reflects that shift. New applicants include Jewish residents, Black and Hispanic residents, Asian Americans, and members of the LGBT community. The Second Amendment is for everyone, and people who never imagined owning a gun now see the value of self-reliance.

But the process is still a gauntlet. New York’s permit and purchase rules can drag out for a year or more. Mandatory courses are inconsistent and unstandardized, despite their length and cost. Buying a gun in the city is nothing like the experience in most of the country.

Instructors and Retailers Are Seeing a Full-Scale Awakening

Longtime firearms instructor Lance Dashefsky says the surge is tied directly to city leadership. “We ain’t fleeing. We’re here to stay. We’re not victims anymore,” he told the New York Post.

Brooklyn gun shop owner Michael Bergida sees the same concerns. “The NYPD is all retiring – we have to fight for ourselves,” he said.

Instructor Ross Den reports that even rabbis are preparing to carry. Synagogues are frequent targets, and congregations are no longer willing to depend on outside help that may not arrive in time. “People are beginning to wake up and realize they have to defend themselves,” Den said.

The Industry Stands With New Yorkers Who Want to Take Responsibility for Their Own Protection

Despite the hoops residents must jump through, gun shops across the city continue helping first-time buyers understand the process and get the training they need.
Anyone “gun curious” will find an industry ready to answer questions and help them navigate the system built to slow them down.

“We are Jewish and we will protect ourselves,” one woman told the Post. “We will have a say in our protection and not have to rely on others.”

That mindset is becoming more common across New York City. The right to keep and bear arms belongs to every law-abiding American, and more New Yorkers are deciding they’re done letting the city decide for them.

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FPC Trashes DOJ’s “Horrifically Flawed” Brief In Machine Gun Ban Appeal by Mark Chesnut

A brief filed by the federal government in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in a case involving the constitutionality of banning machine guns has one pro-gun rights group seeing red.

The case United States v. Justin Bryce Brown revolves around the federal government charging Justice Bryce Brown with knowingly possessing a machine gun in violation of federal law. Brown’s attorney argued that under the landmark 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, the statute was unconstitutional as applied to him.

A district court dismissed the charge against Brown in January, holding that the ban violated the Second Amendment as it applied to him. The government then appealed to the Fifth Circuit.

A brief filed April 24 by Patrick Lemon, acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Mississippi, argued that “machine guns are not the kind of arms protected by the Second Amendment,” and that America’s “history of regulating dangerous and unusual weapons confirms [the federal machine gun ban’s] constitutionality.” The brief drew quick condemnation from the Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC), which called the brief both “horribly flawed” and “insanely offensive.”

One portion of the brief that really set the gun-rights group off was when Lemon cited The Trace, a rabidly anti-gun instrument of Michael Bloomberg’s so-called Everytown for Gun Safety, as his source of information.

“Acting U.S. Attorney Lemon’s horrifically flawed brief is unprincipled and an incredible affront to the People and our constitutionally protected rights,”  Brandon Combs, FPC president, said in a press release about the brief. “Not only does this lemon of a brief expressly advance anti-liberty arguments, it went so far as to cite the radically anti-Second Amendment Everytown propaganda publication, The Trace, in support of its position. This brief could not be less consistent with President Trump’s ‘Protecting Second Amendment Rights’ executive order.”

Since President Trump’s executive order on protecting the Second Amendment does matter—or at least it should to Lemon—Combs said the brief should prompt the president and Attorney General Pam Bondi to look into Lemon’s ability to respect the executive order. After all, the U.S. Attorney filed the poorly thought-out brief on behalf of the federal government, which Trump heads.

“This insanely offensive brief should never have been filed in any court, let alone at the Fifth Circuit,” Combs continued. “It should be immediately withdrawn and thrown into the trash, along with Mr. Lemon’s ability to make these filings in the future.”

Combs added that the Lemon filing is a prime example of why the organization has been asking President Trump to appoint a competent Second Amendment czar to coordinate the administration’s agenda across the government and with stakeholders in Second Amendment litigation.

“Our rights must be protected at all costs and the American people are counting on President Trump and Attorney General Bondi to fulfill their promise to do just that,” he concluded.

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New Mexico Lawmakers Scuttle Anti-Gun Bills by Mark Chesnut

Facing dire consequences if anti-gun legislation made it through the legislature and went to gun-hating Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s desk for consideration, New Mexico gun owners dodged a bullet recently when two bad measures didn’t survive the legislative process.

One such measure, SB 318, attempted to allow attacks on gun makers and gun retailers by subverting the federal Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act. Specifically, it would have expanded the New Mexico Unfair Practices Act to include firearms, parts and accessories, imposing severe penalties of $30,000 per violation and holding manufacturers, distributors and online platforms jointly liable for actions by third parties.

“It allows private lawsuits without proof of harm and grants sweeping authority to the Attorney General to pursue civil penalties,” NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action said in a news alert. “This overreach increases compliance costs, threatens lawful businesses with excessive litigation and raises serious constitutional and interstate commerce concerns, all while doing little to address criminal misuse of firearms.”

Fortunately for New Mexico gun owners, the measure was never taken up by the full senate.

Another measure, SB 279, would have banned gas-operated, semi-automatic rifles, along with firearms magazines holding more than 10 rounds of ammo.

Owners of such guns wanting to keep them would have to “certify” them with the government, creating a gun registry that could easily be used when and if the government later voted to confiscate those guns. That measure was approved in the Senate Judiciary Committee but was never considered in the Senate Finance Committee.

For those readers who don’t remember Gov. Lujan Grisham, she’s the person who last year signed, then re-signed, an executive order banning the carry of firearms in public parks and playgrounds in Albuquerque and surrounding Bernalillo County under the auspices of public safety. That order resulted in a number of lawsuits by gun-rights groups.

Of course, Gov. Lujan Grisham wasn’t pleased that the two bills discussed above weren’t passed by the legislature and sent to her for her signature.

“While we made progress on universal free school lunch, literacy, water planning, and firefighting resources, I cannot ignore that we failed to adequately address the public safety crisis facing our state,” the governor said in a prepared statement. “With 270 public safety bills introduced this session and only a handful passed, we have not met our responsibility to New Mexicans.”

There’s no doubt that Gov. Lujan Grisham will continue to fight to further infringe on the Second Amendment rights of New Mexico’s lawful gun owners. As she said last year during the uproar over her Albuquerque carry ban, “No constitutional right, in my view … is intended to be absolute.”

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9th Circuit Strikes Down 2 Hawaii Gun Restrictions Mark Chesnut

Many gun owners are unaware that Hawaii has some of the most restrictive gun control laws in the nation. Now, however, thanks to a recent circuit court decision, two of those restrictions have been overturned.

On March 14, a three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in the case Yukutake v. Lopez upheld a district court ruling striking down two of the provisions to the Aloha State’s gun laws. One involved the very short time (10 days) a firearms purchaser has to buy a gun after receiving the permit required to make a firearms purchase.

“The panel affirmed the district court’s judgment that the short timeframe for completing the purchase of a firearm after obtaining a permit was unconstitutional under the Second Amendment,” the ruling stated. “The purchase and acquisition of firearms is conduct protected by the plain text of the Second Amendment. Because § 134-2(e) regulates conduct covered by the Second Amendment’s plain text, the Second Amendment presumptively protects that conduct. The burden, therefore, fell on the State to justify its regulation by demonstrating that it is consistent with the Nation’s historical tradition of firearms regulation.”

As the opinion explained, 10 days is a very short period, despite the state arguing otherwise.

“Although the State presumably has a valid interest in ensuring that the background-check results are not stale, the State pointed to no evidence that anything over 10 days or 30 days counts as stale,” the ruling stated. “In Section IV(B)(4) of the opinion, the panel concluded that the temporal limitation was ‘abusive’ within the meaning of Bruen and remanded for the district court to revise its permanent injunction, as appropriate, in light of the recent amendment to § 134-2(e) and to conform to the panel’s ruling.”

The other struck-down provision that was upheld by the circuit court was the requirement for gun buyers to bring their new guns to the police station for an in-person inspection. According to the ruling, this restriction is also overly burdensome and, therefore, unconstitutional.

“Even assuming arguendo that Hawaii’s basic system of registering firearms by owner, type, serial number, etc., was valid under Bruen—a point the panel did not decide—Hawaii’s broad in-person inspection requirement could not be justified as merely a proper ancillary logistical measure in support of such a system,” the ruling stated. “The government failed to point to evidence supporting its conclusion that the addition of a broadly applicable and burdensome physical inspection requirement will materially advance the objectives of the registration system.

As with plaintiffs’ challenge to § 134-2(e), the panel remanded to the district court to revise its permanent injunction, as appropriate, in light of the recent amendment to § 134-3 and to conform to the panel’s ruling.”

Lawful Hawaii gun owners shouldn’t begin celebrating too soon, however. It’s likely the state will ask for the entire 9th Circuit to consider the case sometime in the future.

 

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California Gun Owners Beware: ‘Duty to Retreat’ Required in New Bill by Dave Workman

The California gun prohibition lobby is hailing a new Assembly bill that includes a duty to retreat “When the person was outside of their residence and knew that using force likely to cause death or great bodily injury could have been avoided with complete safety by retreating,” but the measure is drawing a barrage of criticism from Republicans.

According to a synopsis of Assembly Bill 1333, introduced by Democrat State Rep. Rick Chavez Zbur (51st District), “This bill would eliminate certain circumstances under which homicide is justifiable, including, among others, in defense of a habitation or property.”

In a statement released by Everytown for Gun Safety on behalf of the California chapters of Moms Demand Action and Students Demand Action, Everytown Senior Vice President for Government Affairs Monisha Henley asserted, “This legislation builds on California’s gun safety legacy and lays the blueprint for the rest of the nation. White supremacists and other extremists have hidden behind self-defense laws to fire a gun and turn any conflict into a death sentence. Now, lawmakers have an opportunity to help stop that and save lives. We thank Assemblymember Zbur for his commitment to gun safety and listening to advocates and experts on ways to keep Californians safe from gun violence.”

Translation: Shoot a thug in self-defense and risk being smeared as a right-wing racist, and probably prosecuted.

But the San Joaquin Valley Sun is reporting that Zbur, faced with massive criticism, is apparently re-thinking his bill, and he has “promised to amend the proposal to not take away self-defense rights after Republicans came out against it in force.”

The California Globe is quoting Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco, who is also a Republican candidate for governor in 2026.

“Sacramento Democrats have spent the last 15 years tying the hands of law enforcement and coddling criminals, using and abusing ordinary Californians in their attempt to make criminals the real victims,” Bianco reportedly said.

 

“Now, they’re actively trying to tie the hands of our residents, who have had to defend themselves against re-released career criminals far too often. Prop 36 should have been a wake-up call – Californians are sick and tired of crime, and they are demanding that leaders in Sacramento do something about it. Unfortunately for us, Legislative Democrats can’t put aside their backwards ideology. It’s time for a change.”

Likewise, the San Joaquin Valley Sun is reporting statements from a couple of Zbur’s colleagues, both Republicans.

“If you thought California Democrats couldn’t be more out of touch, here’s another example,” Assemblyman David Tangipa of Clovis said. “Where do you retreat if you can’t defend yourself in your own home?”

Assemblyman Tom Lackey of Palmdale called AB 1333 “a complete assault on self-defense.”

“The misguided energy behind this proposal is beyond comprehension,” Lackey said in a post on “X.”

Here is the language in AB 1333 which is raising the ire of Golden State gun owners and even the Riverside County Sheriff.

“Homicide is not justifiable when committed by a person in all of the following cases:

(1) When the person was outside of their residence and knew that using force likely to cause death or great bodily injury could have been avoided with complete safety by retreating.

(2) When the person used more force than was reasonably necessary to defend against a danger.

(3) When the person was the assailant, engaged in mutual combat, or knowingly engaged in conduct reasonably likely to provoke a person to commit a felony or do some great bodily injury, except if either of the following circumstances apply:

(A) The person reasonably believed that they were in imminent danger of death or great bodily injury, and had exhausted every reasonable means to escape such danger other than the use of force likely to cause death or great bodily injury.

 

(B) In good faith, the person withdrew from the encounter with the other assailant or assailants and indicated clearly to the other assailant or assailants that the person desired to withdraw and terminated the use of any force, but the other assailant or assailants continued or resumed the use of force.”

The Globe story also noted, “the huge limitation of self-defense outraged many over the past weekend.”

An unscientific, online survey by KMPH News shows the bill getting an overwhelming negative reaction from respondents. Asked if they agree “with making self-defense against criminals illegal,” a whopping 97 percent were saying “No.”

Under AB 1333, homicide would still be justifiable under these circumstances:

“(1) When resisting any attempt to murder any person or to do some great bodily injury upon any person.

“(2) When committed in defense of a person, against one who manifestly intends or endeavors in a violent, riotous, or tumultuous manner, to enter the habitation of another for the purpose of offering violence to any person therein.

“(3) When committed in the lawful defense of such person, or of a spouse, parent, child, master, mistress, or servant of such person, when there is reasonable ground to apprehend a design to do some great bodily injury, and imminent danger of such design being accomplished.”

While Democrats dominate the Assembly in Sacramento, the reaction so far to AB 1333 is sending a clear message that Zbur’s proposal has crossed way over the line.

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New Mexico Democrats Push Sweeping Ban on Semiautomatic Firearms

New Mexico Democrat lawmakers are pushing a sweeping ban on commonly owned and legally purchased semiautomatic firearms.

The legislation is SB 279, a reboot of the legislation Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) wanted in 2023.

On December 13, 2023, Breitbart News reported that Grisham wanted legislation modeled after Sen. Mark Kelly’s (D-AZ) Gas-Operated Semiautomatic Firearms Exclusion (GOSAFE) Act. Although GOSAFE failed passage at the federal level, Grisham believes it can be secured by her fellow state-level Democrats.

The focus on gas operation allows Democrats to continue to target the AR-15 rifle without having to call the rifle by name. It also allows them to demonize gas operation as if it is some new, groundbreaking technology making firearms more lethal.

In reality, however, the focus on the AR-15’s gas operation comes some 66 years after the gun was designed to use spent gas from a shell casing to reset the bolt group and ready the gun for the next round. The rifle is still just a semiautomatic, firing one round per trigger pull just like a Glock or Smith & Wesson handgun, but the gas from a spent shell casing replaces recoil in working the action.

New Mexico’s SB 279 bears the identical title of Sen. Kelly’s failed federal bill, the Gas-Operated Semiautomatic Firearms Exclusion Act.

On January 16, Breitbart News pointed to National Shooting Sports Foundation data showing Americans own more than 30 million rifles that fall into the Democrats’ “assault weapons” category. Many millions of these are variants of the most popular rifle in the country, the AR-15.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio, a member of Gun Owners of America, a Pulsar Night Vision pro-staffer, and the director of global marketing for Lone Star Hunts. He was a Visiting Fellow at the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal in 2010 and has a Ph.D. in Military History. Follow him on Instagram: @awr_hawkins. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange. Reach him directly: awrhawkins@breitbart.com

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New York bill would let police ‘briefly seize’ firearms during domestics By Lee Williams

Police in New York want the legal ability to seize firearms during a domestic violence call – even if no arrests were made. However, instead of going through normal legal channels and obtaining a search warrant or court order, police just want the legal ability to take the guns on their own.

New York State lawmakers plan to reintroduce a bill during the next legislative session that will go farther than the state’s Safe Homes Act of 2020, which allows officers to seize firearms found during a consensual search when police respond to a domestic dispute.

New York State Senator Peter Harckham, a Democrat from Westchester County, has sponsored a bill that would
“mandate” officers to confiscate all firearms left out in the open during a domestic call.

“This is not gun control, this is gun safety; and this is domestic safety,” the senator told Spectrum News. “This is keeping the victims of domestic violence alive. We had two fatalities through domestic violence and firearms in my district in the last month. This is very real. This is very deadly and this is not a permanent seizure.”

Senator Harckham’s bill would allow police to keep the seized weapons for five days – most likely to seek restraining orders or other legal options – before returning them to their rightful owners. Also, police would likely extend this five-day time limit as needed.

Tom King, president of New York State’s Rifle & Pistol Association, balked loudly about the new bill.

“No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law,” King told the reporters. “That means a search warrant or an order from a judge to confiscate the firearms, and they’re doing this without that.”

King pointed out the more than 100 New Yorkers who had firearms seized under the state’s newly expanded red-flag law. This group contacted King’s nonprofit seeking help getting their guns back. Some have already paid more than $10,000 in legal expenses, King said.

Takeaways

The main problem with the new bill is that it offers police yet another illegal mechanism to seize someone’s guns.

Our federal law does not allow law enforcement to go traipsing through someone’s home looking for firearms that were never used in a crime, which they will then seize for no evidentiary value.

These types of laws are passed solely for one reason – harassment. They want to harass gun owners. They want gun owners temporarily disarmed and then forced to make several trips to the police station to get their property returned, at great cost, too. Don’t forget that.

Today, gun owners have fewer rights in places like New York than they do in free states. This new bill will only make it worse.

Article courtesy of the Second Amendment Foundation’s Investigative Journalism Project. Click here to support the project.

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