Supreme Court ruling breaks New York State gun law a century ago, is firearms The police chief warned that it had soared into the hands of "criminals" and turned the Empire State into "Wild East".
NYPD Deputy Secretary John Miller said in an interview aired Sunday that the number of people allowed to carry guns in New York City was the result of a High Court decision overturning restricted law. Carry a hidden firearmthat was predicted to "surge".
"The worry here is that they make this the wild east of the wild," he told WABC770 to John Catsimatidis, the host of "The Cats Roundtable." rice field.
Sullivan Act, dating back to 1913, gives New Yorkers a "just cause" that they need a pistol for self-defense in order to obtain a license to carry it in public. I had to show. The New York Rifle Pistol Association and two Northern men challenged the law, claiming that violated the rights of Article 2 of the Constitutional Amendment.
In a ruling released Thursday, Judge Clarence Thomas said that the majority of 6 to 3 "prevents citizens who comply with the law requiring normal self-defense from exercising their right to arm. This violates the Article 14 amendment. " Weapons in public.
Miller, NYPD Deputy Secretary of Intelligence and Counterterrorism, He predicted that overturning the law would not only increase suicides, but also increase accidental shootings by children. He said the number of violent law-breakers in possession of firearms would also skyrocket.
"I can't really tell the story that this kind of change elsewhere has brought great benefits," he said.
"People tend to leave their firearms in their cars when they enter a situation where there are many restricted places where they can't carry firearms, whether in hospitals or schools. We know that guns are prone to intrusion and theft, which means that legally obtained guns are in the hands of criminals and turned into illegal guns. " Explained.
"Mayor, Police Secretary [Keechant Sewell], And all police officers have serious concerns that putting more guns on the streets of New York will not be a good end. "
Mayor Eric Adams , Breaking Thursday's ruling and joining other elected officials of the Democratic Party of New York.
The head of a local anti-crime group said he was "concerned" about the impact of the decision, anticipating more deadly shootings in the state and elsewhere.
"The Supreme Court has hidden weapons anywhere, anytime. The biggest step ever taken by expanding the rights to guns by expanding the rights to carry them to all Americans everywhere. " "This does not help public safety."
"It makes the work of NYPD and police stations much more dangerous across the country," aired on Sunday. In an interview, the chief of the nonprofit group added. "We need the myriad of small interactions we make every day in the city, turning them into potentially deadly encounters."
