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shadys210 wrote:
And you have to be 21 to own and carry a pistol, correct?
Yea I would figure you would get stopped and harassed, but it's legal right? say, at a public event such as a parade,carnival, etc? or even in a holster on a horse while riding on public streets?
And you can conceal an uzi?
I am not sure I want to dignify the above with a response, but here goes...
1. Not only would you have to be 21 to own and carry a pistol, you would need to have a New York State License to Carry, which is more difficult to get than any other state in the US that does issue carry licenses. It is a background check nearly as thorough as becoming a police officer. New York, unlike most other states in the US, does not even allow a non-licensee to literally touch a handgun in any way without a license.
2. In New York State, you had better be hunting to carry a long gun for any reason, or at least have ALL of the elements of hunting in place to be legal (in a legal hunting area, in season, permission to use the land, properly licensed, decked out in blaze orange, not crossing a road, etc) Once you left legal hunting land, your long gun would have to be properly secured in your vehicle, unloaded and cased.
3. 'Such as a parade, carnival etc." No way, no how, this certainly isn't going to happen in New York. As a matter of fact, acting entirely as a civilian (while using my Military Police/Security/Law Enforcementtraining) I would probably take you down to the ground and hold you there at gunpoint myself if you were carrying a concealed long gun (under a rain coat on a nice day???) at a carnival or street fair attended by my own family in my own community. My neighbors would expect nothing less, the cops would thank me, the press would write that I prevented a mass shooting. True or not, it does not matter in a liberal state, you don't take long guns to carnivals.
The above is not a threat, it's a fact of life.
4. Most UZIs are legally the size of pistols. You would need a pistol license to own one in New York.