Gun Control & RKBA

That decision not only ignored the "in common use for lawful purposes" test in D.C. v. Heller, but it also ignored the fact that intermediate scrutiny (itself a cop-out, given that the standard for the Bill of Rights is usually strict scrutiny) requires less restrictive alternatives to be considered; the court did not even pretend to do so, just nodded their heads in ignorance and accepted the anti-protruding-handgrip talking points as gospel. Not to mention the sophistry of calling an 11-round rifle magazine "high capacity" without considering that the very first repeating rifles to go mainstream in the 1860s held 15 in the magazine and 1 in the chamber; that's like calling an 11th-week abortion "late term" and thereby justifying a ban on same under Roe v. Wade. And then the silliness of declaring that one of the most popular and least misused civilian guns in U.S. homes, and the #1 target rifle in America, is not "in common use for lawful purposes" but is "dangerous and unusual" even though it's less powerful than most alternatives. Sigh...

Second-Class Intermediate Scrutiny
Contradictions with Heller and McDonald rulings

I suppose NY rifle owners can take solace in the fact that most counties have declared they won't enforce it, most of the state is in open defiance of it, the law wrecked Cuomo's shot at running for President, and you can still legally buy a new AR in NY, albeit an ugly one. The law made a certain Wall Street oligarch happy, though, and that's what's really important.