September Begins Gun-Control Season in New York

It’s a cliché to say so, but these regulations bother only the most law-abiding people in the state.

Did we get only two months and a week of the Second Amendment in New York State? On June 23, the Supreme Court overturned New York’s laws that required residents seeking a permit to carry a firearm outside of their homes to “demonstrate a special need for protection.”

It seemed intuitive for years that the Founders could not have meant that the Second Amendment allows individuals only to buy a firearm and then do nothing...