ORIGINAL: mrbuster
IM in Ulster County. I've had my "permit" for about 15 years. I have no restrictions. I carry 90% of the time. My son lives in Saratoga County. He tells me it's difficult to get a "full carry permit" there as well.
If the pistol license laws are ever changed in NY, one of trhe most needed reforms would be to remove the discretionary power from the county judges! The way it is now, you are at their mercy! There are some counties in which you can't get a license at all unless you are one of the judge's buddies. And some of these counties are very rural areas with no big cities in which pistols are even a conceivable problem.....