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New York says its history of racist laws that allowed for disarming Catholics and Indigenous people supports a "good moral character" requirement for obtaining a concealed carry license, a point that Second Amendment groups see as a bad-faith argument for gun control.
New York is trying to use "good moral character" laws once used to restrict guns for Native Americans, Catholics, to defend the Concealed Carry Improvement Act.