Friday 24 June 2022 08:48 PM NYC Mayor Adams will allow private business to restrict guns in the wake of the ... trends now
Mayor Eric Adams said he will allow private businesses to restrict guns to prevent the already vulnerable city from turning into the 'Wild Wild West,' amid the U.S. Supreme Court's bombshell ruling overturning a century-old state gun law.
The 6-3 Supreme Court decision reversing the strict gun carrying law in New York, which has been in effect for the last 108 years, was made on Thursday.
The court's conservative majority said Americans should be allowed to carry firearms for self-defense, maintaining that New York's law is unconstitutional and violated the Second Amendment.
Adams dismissed the argument that New Yorkers should be allowed to defend themselves outside their homes, telling WNBC4 News 'this is not the Wild Wild West.'
Previously, permits to carry a concealed firearm were issued only to people demonstrating a specific need to be armed.
The new ruling will now make it easier for New Yorkers and Americans to obtain guns.
It comes at a dark time when New York City is already facing escalating violence on city streets and in the city's subway system.
'The decision has made every single one of us less safe from gun violence,' Adams said, blasting the Supreme Court's decision.
'The decision has made every single one of us less safe from gun violence,' Mayor Eric Adams said Thursday, blasting the Supreme Court's decision and sharing his concerns on the new controversial ruling
Previously, permits to carry a concealed firearm were issued only to people demonstrating a specific need to be armed. The new ruling will now make it easier for New Yorkers and Americans to obtain guns and comes at a dark time when New York City is already facing escalating violence on city streets and in the city's subway system
A picture of the U.S. Supreme Court where a decision was made on Thursday to reverse the strict gun-carrying law in New York, which has been in effect for the last 108 years. The court's 6-3 conservative majority said Americans should be allowed to carry firearms for self-defense, arguing New York's law is unconstitutional and violated the Second Amendment
The mayor called upon Justice Clarence Thomas, who wrote the court's majority opinion, asserting that 'even law-abiding citizens
