MANHATTAN (CN) — Three handgun buyers persuaded the Second Circuit to reinstate some of their claims against New York City in a Tuesday ruling, reviving their challenge to city and state gun licensing requirements, including limits on how many guns a person can own or carry and the 90-day waiting period between gun purchases.
In the lower court, U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff tossed the case in December 2024, concluding that “none of the predominantly administrative regulations here operates to permanently deprive applicants of their right to own and carry firearms.”
The appellate panel said the lower court was right to dismiss certain claims for lack of jurisdiction, and to ditch the challenge to state licensing fees — the constitutionality of those fees was upheld in Kwong v. Bloomberg, as the city’s attorney noted during oral arguments…