The city has the power to enact their own gun control laws. New York state either has no preemption or simply exempts NYC (I’m not sure which).
NYS permits are NOT valid in NYC.
The last I heard (and it’s been a while) that it is fairly straightforward (by NYC standards and a lot of money involved) to get a permit to keep a handgun in your home or for transport to and from a pistol range. The handgun must then be registered. (As a side note, this is where the misconception that guns are “registered” usually comes from: crime dramas set in NYC. Legal pistols have to be registered there, but mostly nowhere else in America).
If you want the full Monty, the one that lets you carry in public, then what you said is true. You had better be a celebrity or have an overwhelming need for a full carry permit, or else none will be coming your way.
I’ve never seen it in the rest of the state. Your friend should bitch to the high heavens to the chief or sheriff of whatever law enforcement harassed him while carrying. Those guys should (and in my mind really DO) know the law. If they are screwing with him, then the administration needs to know about it so they can put a stop to it.
Please note my instructions in post #33. Let’s keep this to a discussion of legality of carry laws, and drop the comments on harassment, which is better suited to IMHO. No warning issued.
Interestingly enough, this came up. The CCW law allows for the concealed carry of a knife with a permit (open carry of knives was already legal). However, the definition of a knife is open to interpretation. The state has a preemption law on firearms prohibiting municipalities from enacting laws contrary or tougher than state law.
But there is no such law on swords and such. so, theoretically, a town could have an ordinance against swords.
Absolute hogwash. How would anyone know who I am and what I do? For example, today I OC’d wearing blue jeans and my purple awesome Possum T-shirt. I don’t live in the jurisdiction I currently work in, and I don’t live in the jurisdiction I retired from. And I don’t know anyone in 98% of the blocks I walked my dog in. And no, I do not walk around with my badge on my belt. How would anyone know what I do for a living?
Retraction, please!
That portion is not true, because:
Gov. Perry also signed H.B. 1815, a bill that allows any Texas resident to carry a concealed handgun in the resident’s motor vehicle without a CHL or other permit.[6] Chapter 46, Section 2 of the Penal Code states that it is in fact not “Unlawful Carry of a Weapon” for a person to carry a weapon while in a motor vehicle they own or control, or to carry while heading directly from the person’s home to that car. However, lawful carry while in a vehicle requires these three critical qualifiers: (1) the gun must be concealed; (2) the carrier cannot be involved in criminal activities, other than Class C traffic misdemeanors; and (3) the carrier cannot be a member of a street gang.
Around here that stuff doesn’t work. An officer get’s dispatched to a call and it’s handled the same regardless of who or what the subject is. As far as open carry goes, officers are being trained to check the area and make sure the OCer is not doing anything wrong, and then educate the complainant on open carry legality.
At no time have any on duty police officers ever approached me while open carrying, even the few times I’ve walked right past squad cars parked running radar. Your previous post seems to infer that this is because I’m a cop when that is absolutely not the case.
I also have never really been harassed by regular citizens. A couple of months ago a guy from the Phone company made a rude comment about it, and last year during a rare time that I went into a business a customer made a comment. But those are isolated cases in the years I’ve open carried.
While I am certain there is more harassment and officers using improper procedure when the laws are new and they either haven’t been trained properly or they’re just jerks who haven’t received enough complaints about them yet, after a couple of years there’s no excuse for it and it generally goes away.
As for people making stupid comments, well, you’re always going to get that. Everyone has their hot button issues or the things that bother them and they’re going to say something about it in public. Try walking down the street wearing socks with sandals. I bet you get a lot more comments than if you were open carrying a gun.
But as we’ve already been told by a moderator, this is not that discussion.
You’re welcome to have that discussion, but as I said since it’s largely going to be based on personal experiences, it’s better suited to IMHO. If you want to talk about it, please open another thread in IMHO. Thanks.