‘Iron Pipeline now Van Wyck’

Mayor Adams led New York’s top elected officials in excoriating the US Supreme Court for overturning a century-old state gun law — warning at a Thursday press conference that “this decision has made every single one of us less safe from gun violence.”

“There is no place in the nation this decision affects as much as New York City,” Adams said in response to the 6-3 ruling, which he added was “just not rooted in reality.”

“The opinion claims to be based on the nation’s historical past but does not account for the reality of today. It ignores the present and it endangers our future,” he continued.

“If this ruling is implemented, the Iron Pipeline is going to be the Van Wyck, not I-95.”

Hizzoner vowed to do a “comprehensive review” of how to define “sensitive locations” or places where carrying a gun can still be legally banned.

He also promised to reexamine the city’s gun-permitting process to ensure only those who are “fully qualified” can get a license. The Sullivan Act, which took effect in 1911, required New Yorkers who wanted to get a license to carry a handgun in public to show “proper cause” that the weapon was needed specifically for self-defense. The New York State Rifle and Pistol Associaand tion two upstate men challenged the law, claiming it violated their Second Amendment rights.

On Thursday, Justice Clarence Thomas sided with the plaintiffs and wrote the law’s requirements “violates the Fourteenth Amendment by preventing lawabiding citizens with ordinary self-defense needs from exercising their right to keep and bear arms in public.”

During a press conference in Manhattan, Gov. Hochul called the decision “not just reckless” but “reprehensible” and “not what New Yorkers want.”

“Today the Supreme Court is sending us backwards in our efforts to protect families and prevent gun violence,” Hochul said.

Additional reporting by Williams