Tag: GUNS
In 2011, police officers arrived at Sunset Park’s Sunny 39 Hotel to an incredible scene. Two men–Felipe Rodriguez and Louis Marino–were in the third floor hallway wearing rubber gloves. One had a baton. When officer Annmarie Guerra asked what the pair was doing, Rodriguez was frank, explaining that he was a drug dealer, and the man […]
As the hubbub surrounding 3D-printed guns reaches fever pitch, one New York City Councilman is pushing legislation that would heavily regulate the weapons. The bill, which will be introduced today by Brooklyn Democrat Lew Fidler, would ban manufacture of the guns without a gunsmith license and require owners to give their weapons an ID number and […]
The promise of Defense Distributed’s Liberator 3D-printed handgun–that it would “free” firearms from the firearms industry, putting a gun in the hands of anybody who wants one–is really a dot on the horizon. Cody Wilson and co. got one to fire, yes, but they did it with an $8,000 printer that looks like a vending […]
Hip-hop entrepreneur Michael “Blue” Williams is proposing an unusual plan to deal with gun violence in New York: offer tickets to see Jay-Z or Beyonce at their upcoming shows to anyone who brings in a firearm for buyback. Williams also plans to augment the buyback model in more substantiative ways, giving the option for kids […]
New York Democratic Congressman Steve Israel hopes to federally outlaw 3D-printed guns and magazines this December, when the Undetectable Firearms Act of 1988 expires and goes up for renewal. The act, which outlaws the manufacture, sale, and possession of plastic guns that could pass through x-rays and metal detectors without setting them off, does not […]
In the wake of the deadly school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, a proposal put forth to Staten Island’s Community Education Council would have the city hire hundreds of retired police officers to work as armed security guards in New York City schools, rotating around the city’s 1,1750 schools. It’s unclear whether the guards would be […]
