With Heller and McDonald having been decided it has already been established that one has the right to keep and bear arms in the home and that the right to keep and bear arms is enforceable against the states. The Woollard case, or one like it, will be reaching the Supreme Court most likely within the next five years. This is where the rubber is going to meet the road and where we're going to see just how far SCOTUS is willing to go in terms of recognizing the right to bear arms outside of one's home.
As a native New Yorker, I'll say this: If SCOTUS chokes and either decides not to hear this case (should it be appealed that far) or rules against us then the right to keep and bear arms is dead and buried in New York and most likely in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Illinois as well. Absent federal intervention RKBA will never be recognized in those barring an actual revolution.
As a native New Yorker, I'll say this: If SCOTUS chokes and either decides not to hear this case (should it be appealed that far) or rules against us then the right to keep and bear arms is dead and buried in New York and most likely in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Illinois as well. Absent federal intervention RKBA will never be recognized in those barring an actual revolution.