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Polybius

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4. Here's a link to NYC's gun laws, and what you have to go through to get a hand gun

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Mon Dec 2, 2019, 03:01 PM

Dec 2019

http://nycitylens.com/wp-content/guns/new-york-city-and-its-gun-laws-how-strict-are-they/index.html

It's $340 for the application for a handgun, $140 for the rifle one, plus $90 for fingerprints. You pay whether you are approved or not. The waiting period is also between 3-6 months.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for gun-control, but this is too much. For a handgun application plus fingerprints, you are paying $430. That's the equivalent to a poll tax. The waiting period can be shorted as well with an instant background. Even a month waiting period I'd be ok with.

I'm not sure if these two things are being challenged or not. Does anyone know?

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1st Supreme Court Gun-Rights Battle In 10 Years May Transform Legal Landscape [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2019 OP

Supreme Court shows little appetite for expanding gun rights in arguments over repealed NY reg. mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2019 #1

Not surprising that Roberts would rather punt Amishman Dec 2019 #2

They might as well just make murder legal and get it over with. Initech Dec 2019 #3

Will there be blood in the streets? friendly_iconoclast Dec 2019 #5

Well it's not quite in the NRA's master plan... Initech Dec 2019 #6

*Do* tell us more about "the NRA's master plan". For starters: How did you get hold of it, friendly_iconoclast Dec 2019 #7

I think I found it right next to the Snyder Cut of Justice League. Initech Dec 2019 #9

Here's a link to NYC's gun laws, and what you have to go through to get a hand gun Polybius Dec 2019 #4

NYC has nothing on Japan! Initech Dec 2019 #8

Aren't you glad to know that in Japan, suicides are rarely committed with guns? friendly_iconoclast Dec 2019 #10

And Japan doesn't have the second amendment or our gun culture Amishman Dec 2019 #11