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Since this is a NY State specific thread. Have there been any legislation, challenges or lawsuits to get rid of the "Sullivan Law' in the 102+ years it has been in effect?
Certainly there have been legal challenges, the most significant of the post Heller/McDonald challenges was Kachalsky v. Cacace, which dealt directly with the "good cause" requirement of NY state handgun licensing. The case had very compelling plaintiffs, was backed by SAF and argued by Alan Gura. The case lost in the 2nd District and was denied cert by SCOTUS.
NY has decided that unlike other freedoms such as speech and association, your right to effective personal protection in the form of a handgun is subject to approval by a person that can use purely arbitrary reasoning to determine if you can exercise your freedom. By denying cert, SCOTUS implictly endorsed the laws of NY. Too much is made of the Heller and McDonald decisions. While it is true that bans on the possession of all guns by all the people all the time has been found to be in opposition to the 2A, a scheme where a very few of the people have access to a limited selection of guns in a very small area has been found to be implicitly acceptable by SCOTUS.