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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld much of a New York gun control law enacted after a Supreme Court ruling last year expanded gun rights but blocked the state from enforcing new restrictions against carrying firearms on private property open to the public. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned lower-court rulings holding that bans on carrying a firearms in “sensitive places” like parks, zoos, bars and theaters violated citizens’ right to keep and bear arms under the Constitution’s Second Amendment. But the court said the state had failed to show how a …

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