It's actually an interesting issue. The mechanics of the system work against it's integrity.
When you want a handgun, you go to the Sheriff. Upon request, at $5 each, Sheriffs issue an unlimited number of permits which are good for five years. They perform a background check when the permits are applied for. Dealers take the permit, and do not perform another background check at the time of sale. The sheriff offices have no resources available for tracking issued permits (after all, their agencies are there to deal with crime and criminals, not law abiding citizens - right?)...
Thus, someone can get a handful of permits, become prohibited the next day, and still hold valid permits for up to 5 years. We added a poison pill to a gun law a few years ago to require a study on the number of issued permits in felon or prohibited person's hands. After a couple of man years of study effort, they found 5,255 permits in the hands of prohibited people. Here's the study:
http://grnc.org/documents/NCSA-PPP-R...2014-FINAL.pdf
The permits cost citizens $5 each, but the sheriff departments spend up to $75 each to process them. That extra cost runs close to $10 million every year, the bill footed by taxpayers.
So, we have a system that leaks permits into prohibited people, sheriffs that actively support it because of the value of "background checks" (including participation in Bloomberg paid advertising opposing us the last time we tried to eliminate the system) and a system that interferes with lawful acquisition of firearms.
The sick thing here is that by just relying on the FBI NICS system at time of purchase, the public would be better served...
So, New Yorkers, get ready for similar corruption in implementation of the SAFE act provisions...
What part of these ineffective infringements on the Second Amendment don't violate the constitution?