NEW YORK: It can quickly be forbidden to hold a firearm, even hid, within the famed Occasions Sq. district and different public locations within the metropolis and state of New York, authorities introduced on Wednesday.
New York’s legislature handed — and its Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul signed — laws limiting the possession of firearms in delicate areas earlier this 12 months, and it comes into drive on Thursday.
It was a part of a response to a late June ruling by the conservative-majority US Supreme Court docket that enshrined the fitting of People to go away their properties armed, putting down a 1913 New York regulation that restricted the carrying of firearms.
“The US Supreme Court docket’s… determination was the shot heard around the world that took lifeless intention on the security of all New Yorkers,” the town’s Democratic mayor, Eric Adams, advised journalists.
“New York Metropolis will defend itself towards this determination, and, starting tomorrow, new eligibility necessities for hid carry allow candidates and restrictions on the carrying of hid weapons in ‘delicate areas,’ like Occasions Sq., take impact,” mentioned Adams, a former police officer.
The mayor unveiled a “Occasions Sq.: Gun Free Zone” signal that shall be hung by Thursday in and across the iconic sq. within the coronary heart of Manhattan, the place large digital billboards are lit day and night time for the 50 million guests who flock there annually.
The governor of the fourth-largest US state added that weapons, even when they’re hid, shall be prohibited in “bars, libraries, colleges, authorities buildings and hospitals, amongst others.”
Hochul mentioned she refuses “to give up my proper as Governor to guard New Yorkers from gun violence or another type of hurt. In New York State, we are going to proceed main the way in which ahead and implementing frequent sense gun security laws.”
The restrictions don’t apply to regulation enforcement officers.
