The mayor signs a bill to ban TS weapons

Mayor Eric Adams today signed the bill that establishes the limits of the Times Square area in which the carrying of weapons will be prohibited even for those with a permit.

The regulation therefore responds to the enumeration of exceptional places where the carrying of weapons is restricted, after a federal judge ruled in July that New York could not ban them statewide as it had for decades.

“Today I signed two bills that will help us stem the rivers that feed the sea of ​​armed violence in our city,” wrote the mayor in a message on social networks.

“The first will help us keep track of illegal arms trafficking data, while the other legally establishes Times Square as a gun-free zone,” the message continues.

Today I signed two bills that will help us block the rivers that feed the sea of ​​armed violence in our city.

The first will help us keep track of data on illegal arms trafficking, while the other establishes by law that Times Square is a Gun-Free Zone.https: //t.co/C4H2zzoDKh. pic.twitter.com/QfrQZmJPaT

– Mayor Eric Adams (@NYCMayor) 11 October 2022

Those exceptional places are the schools, the religious temples, the theaters, the transport network and the Times Square area, although today there was a problem solved: no one had ever said where one of the most amorphous squares in the world begins and ends. world.

“Millions of New Yorkers and tourists flock to Times Square to see Broadway shows, enjoy great food and take pictures of neon billboards, and we won’t let them live in fear or distrust of someone walking around with a gun.” hurt them, “the mayor said during the act in the middle of the street on Seventh Avenue.

He also pointed out that with this law they want the 56 million tourists who will visit the city this year “to be safe” when strolling through Times Square.

Despite Adams ‘words, the rule is now in the air, after a federal judge overturned parts of the text on October 6, arguing that it violates the second constitutional amendment that establishes Americans’ right to bear arms.

Federal Judge Glen Suddaby’s 53-page ruling says the gun ban is understandable in “sensitive places” but not in Times Square, and has given Governor Kathy Hochul, whose administration implemented those measures, three working days to search. an alternative.