Beginning Thursday, the movement with firearms, including concealed ones, will be prohibited in the famous Times Square neighborhood of Manhattan, as well as in many public places in the state and in New York City, the authorities announced Wednesday.
Goes into effect with this new legislation, passed and signed this summer by New York State led by Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and the megacity led by right-wing Democratic mayor Eric Adams September 1st.
It’s a reaction from New York and other Democratic states like California to the shutdown.”scandalous” of the Supreme Court of the United States – with a conservative majority – which at the end of June had sanctioned the constitutional right of Americans to leave the house armed.
“The decision of the Supreme Court was a shot that went around the world“, the very martial launched during a press conference Eric Adams, former police captain who made the fight against gun violence the backbone of his mandate.
“New York City will defend itself against the decision and, starting tomorrow, new requirements for the right to concealed carry of a firearm will go into effect in sensitive places like Times Square.“, he explained.
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The governor of the country’s fourth state (20 million inhabitants) added that these weapons, even “hidden” in cases, bags or pockets, will be banned in “bars, libraries, schools, utilities and hospitals” in the region.
Kathy Hochul to say “refusing to waive its government duty to protect New Yorkers from gun violence“These bans do not apply to law enforcement agencies.
The Washington Supreme Courtwhose majority of judges are conservative, had invalidated on June 23 the “restrictions“to carry a firearm under a 1913 New York State law, though America is facing a crime spike in major cities and a series of murders, including two in May, in Buffalo (10 African Americans dead) and in a Texas school (21 dead, including 19 children).
