It is said that justice delayed is justice denied, and the same principle applies to constitutional rights.
New York City residents face utterly unnecessary delays in obtaining concealed carry licenses, and now nine filed a lawsuit against the municipality in federal court.
The plaintiffs in Milani et al. v. New York City argue that the New York Police Department’s License Division interferes with granting these permits. State law demands that decisions on concealed carry applications be made within six months, but the complaint charges that standard is violated as a matter of policy.
According to the plaintiffs, the six-month period often becomes longer than a year due to a litany of impediments.
These include basic law enforcement functions such as fingerprinting. When citizens apply, the NYPD often takes several months to fulfill this initial step.
Applicants often complain of trying to hit a moving target to obtain their license. Forms never mentioned at the start of the process suddenly become necessary later, and documents already submitted are demanded yet again.
And when these steps are finally complete, applications often languish for several more months waiting for assignment to an investigator.
Approvals are often granted only when there is a threat of legal action against the City.
The lawsuit forcefully claims that this pattern of obstruction denies law-abiding citizens their Second Amendment rights through foot-dragging and outright refusal to perform necessary tasks.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 Bruen should have ended the state’s unnecessary hurdles designed to prevent carrying a weapon outside of the home. It is evident, according to the current litigants, that there are forces within the NYPD who still seek to suppress gun rights and circumvent this ruling.
The high court spoke in a clear voice, but the complaint charges that liberties continue to be denied.
The plaintiffs seek a court order for the NYPD to follow state law and discontinue the practice of making applicants wait long past the legal deadline.
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