A New York law that designates vast swaths of the state as "sensitive locations" and prohibits concealed weapons in those locations will remain in place during the appeal process, a U.S. Court of Appeals judge for the Second Circuit ordered Wednesday.

Although Judge Eunice C. Lee issued the stay, the prosecutor for Onondaga County told the New York Law Journal that authorities in his jurisdiction agreed to use their discretion about arresting people under the new law, which New York lawmakers set in motion after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the state's century-old concealed carry statute in June.