NAZI KATHLEEN HOCHUL DESTROY'S NEW YORKER'S 2ND AMMENDMENT RIGHTS – “the kind of bill that the Gestapo would be proud of or you’d see in Communist China

ALBANY — New York now requires people applying for a handgun license to turn over a list of their social media accounts so officials can verify their “character and conduct” under a bill passed Friday in the state Legislature.

 Among the requirements: Applicants would have to show they have “the essential character, temperament and judgment necessary to be entrusted with a weapon and to use it only in a manner that does not endanger oneself and others,” according to the bill.

 As part of that assessment, the bill says applicants have to turn over a list of any social media accounts they have had in the past three years “to confirm the information regarding the applicant’s character and conduct.”

 Gun rights advocates were incensed, saying the measure intrudes on constitutional rights.

 “This is a violation of Second Amendment rights, but they are also asking you to sign away your privacy rights for social media accounts, signing away your First Amendment rights,” said Mark Liva, the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s managing director of public affairs.  State Republican Chair Nick Langworthy said “New Yorkers’ constitutional freedoms were just trampled on.”

 People applying for a license to carry a handgun would also have to provide four character references, take 16 hours of firearms safety training plus two hours of practice at a range, undergo periodic background checks and turn over the contact information of their spouse.

 Aaron Dorr, the executive director of the New York Stat Firearms Association, called the measure “the kind of bill that the Gestapo would be proud of or you’d see in Communist China.

 “This will never survive a court challenge,” he said.

Under the new system, the state doesn’t allow permits for people with criminal convictions within the past five years for driving while intoxicated, menacing or third-degree assault.

 People also wouldn’t be allowed to carry firearms at a long list of “sensitive places,” including New York City’s tourist-packed Times Square. That list also includes schools, universities, government buildings, places where people have gathered for public protests, health care facilities, places of worship, libraries, public playgrounds and parks, day care centers, summer camps, addiction and mental health centers, shelters, public transit, bars, theaters, stadiums, museums, polling places and casinos.

 New York also bars people from bringing guns into any business or workplace unless the owners put up signs saying guns are welcome. People who bring guns into these places could be prosecuted on felony charges.

 Gun advocates said the bill infringes on rights upheld by the Supreme Court.