“We can say with certainty this decision has made every single one of us less safe from gun violence,' Mayor Eric Adams said about the Supreme Court's decision.
Mayor Eric Adams speaks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned New York’s law that restricts gun owners from carrying their firearms in public spaces.Mayor Eric Adams speaks after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned New York’s law that restricts gun owners from carrying their firearms in public spaces.to overturn New York’s law that restricts gun owners from carrying their firearms in public spaces, a long-awaited ruling that he had said kept him awake at night.
Adams, who stood alongside NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Philip Banks III, and his chief legal counsel, Brendan McGuire, said that he had asked McGuire to assess the level of concern he had over the decision on a scale of one to 10. In the meantime, both Adams and Sewell stressed that no changes to the NYPD’s gun permitting process had been made and those without such permits would be arrested for illegally carrying their firearms into public areas.Looking ahead, Adams said the city’s legal team would look into designating certain parts of the city as “sensitive locations” where guns would not be permitted.
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