Dear New Yorkers,
If former President Donald Trump’s supporters heed his call to protest his possible indictment, it will be the first big test of New York’s revamped law on concealed carry gun permits.
Yesterday, the police department began linking steel barriers around the streets of Lower Manhattan outside the courthouse where Trump would be arraigned if charged. Barriers also went up across the street, in front of a small city-owned plaza called Collect Pond Park.
The placement of these barriers indicates the department likely will treat these areas as gun-free zones, based on a law known as the Concealed Carry Improvement Act passed by Albany last year after the Supreme Court overturned a century-old New York City statute that had made it difficult for most people to get a gun license here.
Supporters of the Concealed Carry Act said the language of the new law is clear, and that they would expect that anyone caught with a licensed gun within the areas designated as a protest zone would face arrest.
"I certainly hope that if people are exercising their First Amendment rights, that they do that in a peaceful and thoughtful fashion," said Assemblymember Jeffrey Dinowitz (D-The Bronx), one of the act's key sponsors. "If they don't, we would count on the NYPD to enforce the law."
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