- The New York State Jewish Gun Club plans to sue New York for banning firearms in places of worship, calling it “unconstitutional” in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
- The law, signed by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, also bans guns from most public and private businesses and requires that applicants for a concealed carry permit must provide their social media history to verify their “character and conduct” is suitable enough to own a gun.
- “The Second Amendment is not a second class right,” Jewish Gun Club founder Tzvi Waldman told the DCNF.
(Daily Caller) The New York State Jewish Gun Club plans to sue New York for banning firearms in places of worship, calling it “unconstitutional” in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Tzvi Waldman, the founder of the New York State Jewish Gun Club, is working with a civil rights attorney to challenge a provision of New York’s new Concealed Carry Improvement Act (CCIA), prohibiting congregants from carrying guns inside places of worship among other locations it deems “sensitive.” He told the DCNF he is “very confident” the law will “definitely” be overturned, calling it “unconstitutional on so many levels.”
“The Second Amendment is not a second class right,” he told the DCNF.
The law, signed by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, also bans guns from most public and private businesses and requires that applicants for a concealed carry permit provide their social media history to verify their “character and conduct” is suitable enough to own a gun. It was passed in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in New York Firearms Association v. Bruen, striking down the state’s requirement that concealed carry applicants must “demonstrate proper cause.”
Keeping New Yorkers safe is my top priority.
Starting tomorrow, concealed weapons will no longer be permitted on subways, in bars, and the following sensitive locations. pic.twitter.com/RKExUOBlrT
— Governor Kathy Hochul (@GovKathyHochul) August 31, 2022
“New York is in the midst of a massive crime wave, we have seen in particular a sudden rise in violent hate crimes against Orthodox Jews,” Gavin Wax, president of the New York Young Republicans Club, told the DCNF. (RELATED: Jewish Groups Lambast CNN For ‘Whitewashing’ Left-Wing Antisemitism)
“The average Orthodox Jew spends up to 20 hours a week in shul (synagogue). So for us, not being able to be protected in shul means more than the average person who goes to church once a week,” Waldman told the Bronx’s News 12.
Hate crimes committed against Jews make up more than half of all religion-based hate crimes in the U.S., FBI statistics show. New York has witnessed a more than 300% increase in antisemitic hate crimes in the first three months of 2022 compared with last year.
A stabbing attack at the home of a rabbi in Monsey killed one and injured four others in 2019, News 12 noted.
