The Supreme Court’s decision to repeal the centuries-old gun law in New York will lead to a sharp rise in the number of firearms in the hands of “criminals” – turning the Empire State into a “Wild East”, warned a senior police officer.
New York Police Deputy Commissioner John Miller predicted in an interview on Sunday that the number of people allowed to carry weapons in New York would “increase” as a result of the Supreme Court’s decision to repeal a law. which restricts the carrying of concealed firearms.
“The worry here is that they will turn this into the wild, wild east,” he told The Cats Roundtable host John Katsimatidis on WABC 770.
The Sullivan Act, dating back to 1913, required New Yorkers to show a “proper reason” that the gun was needed for self-defense in order to obtain a license to carry it in public. The State Association of Rifles and Pistols in New York and two men from the northern part of the state challenged the law, claiming it violated their rights under the Second Amendment.
In a ruling released Thursday, Judge Clarence Thomas wrote of the 6-3 majority that the law “violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing law-abiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their right to hold and carry weapons in public.”
New York Police Deputy Commissioner John Miller predicts that the Supreme Court, which overturned the New York State Weapons Act, will turn the city into a “Wild East.” Stefan Jeremiah for the New York Post
Miller, the NYPD’s deputy commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism, predicts that repealing the law will increase suicides and accidental shootings of children. The number of violent offenders who eventually own firearms will also increase, he said.
“No one can really tell a story that says that some great benefit has come from these kinds of changes elsewhere,” he said.
“We know that if you get into a situation where there are a lot of restricted places where you can’t carry your firearms – whether it’s hospitals or schools – people tend to leave them in cars, cars tend to be smashed and weapons tend to be stolen, which means that legally obtained weapons are now becoming illegal weapons in the hands of criminals, “Miller explained.
The Supreme Court voted 6-3 to repeal the Sullivan Act of 1913, which required New Yorkers to show “the right reason” to obtain a gun license. Getty Images / iStockphoto
“The mayor, the police commissioner [Keechant Sewell]and every police officer has a serious concern that dropping more weapons on the streets of New York will not end well. “
Mayor Eric Adams joined other Democratic-elected officials in New York in breaking up Thursday, saying it “makes each of us less safe from gun violence.”
The head of a local crime group said he was also “concerned” about the consequences of the decision, predicting more fatal shootings in the state and elsewhere.
Miller said the decision could lead to the weapons falling into the hands of “criminals.” Getty Images / iStockphoto
“I am concerned that the Supreme Court has now taken the biggest step that has ever been taken to expand gun rights by extending the right to bear concealed weapons to every American anywhere, anytime, anywhere,” the Civil Crimes Commission said. in New York This was said by President Richard Aborne during a speech on the weekly radio show Katsimatidis. “It’s not going to be good for public safety.”
“This makes the work of New York City police and police departments across the country much more dangerous,” the nonprofit chief added in an interview on Sunday. “It takes countless small interactions that we have in the cities every day and turn them into the potential to turn into deadly encounters.”
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