Some more good news from the courts, a federal judge has struck down as likely unconstitutional the Washington D.C. “may issue” CCW law:
“… “The enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table,” [U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon] wrote in a 46-page opinion, quoting a 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2008 in another District case that established a constitutional right to keep firearms in one’s home. Leon said that the right applies both inside and outside the home. “The District’s understandable, but overzealous, desire to restrict the right to carry in public a firearm for self-defense to the smallest possible number of law-abiding, responsible citizens is exactly the type of policy choice the Justices had in mind,” he wrote …”
Neither this nor the Peruta case in the 9th Circuit directly affect New York, but they might have some reference value in future court cases.