ALBANY, N.Y. — New York gun owners will be barred from carrying firearms in a wide array of “sensitive locations,” and businesses must explicitly allow armed patrons under an agreement reached Wednesday between lawmakers and Gov. Kathy Hochul.
The deal — which will bar guns from being brought into government buildings, schools, subways and buses, medical facilities and more — comes less than a week after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a state law that limited the carrying of concealed weapons.
“We’re going to continue to make sure we toughen those laws,” Hochul, a Democrat, said following a meeting of the Interstate Task Force on Illegal Guns in upstate East Greenbush. “This is not the Wild West. This is New York State.”
