Be careful what you tweet, if you hope to someday lawfully own a firearm in New York state.
A Democratic state lawmaker from Brooklyn has submitted a bill calling for all gun-license applicants to let the government review their social media posts going back three years and their internet searches going back one year.
Investigators would then look “any good cause for the denial of a license,” such as racial slurs, threats of violence and terrorism-related posts.
But the bill’s sponsor, state Sen. Kevin Parker, has a history of his own legal skirmishes.
Parker was convicted in 2010 of roughing up a New York Post photographer — and allegedly did the same to a traffic agent in 2005, but avoided punishment by agreeing to undergo anger management training.
In addition, government records cited by the Post in 2017 indicated Parker owed more than $50,000 in property taxes and water bills. – READ MORE