Leave Your Heat at Home: No Concealed-Carry in NYC
THE ISSUE: The Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, which allows permit holders to carry guns across state lines.
Republicans seem to believe states rights trump federal laws for everything except handguns (“Concealed-Carry Madness,” Editorial, Dec. 8).
The House passed the Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, which will allow concealed-carry permit holders to carry handguns across state lines legally, leaving states with no say in the matter.
If this legislation becomes law, City Hall should require those carrying guns in New York City to register their guns’ serial numbers as well as where they’re staying in the city and how long they’ll be visiting. Hopefully, New Jersey will enact a similar policy. Bill King Elizabeth, NJ NYPD Commissioner James O’Neill said the CCRA could be a risk to public safety.
O’Neill must be talking about armed criminals, not law-abiding citizens with permits. Tom Vance Blakeslee, Pa.
New York has 62 counties, and 52 of them introduced resolutions requesting the repeal of the New York Safe Act.
Concealed-carry permit holders travel freely in and around those 52 counties. We get to carry in some surrounding states, but not all of them. We would just like the freedom to travel state-to-state.
Permit holders are vetted by our states and by the federal government, as well. We are law-abiding, sane, responsible people who want only to contribute to public safety. Nicon Zasorin Claverack
The purpose of this act is to prevent travelers who carry a concealed weapon that would be lawful in their home state from facing criminal prosecution for carrying in other states.
I’m sure I speak for most folks who have concealed-carry permits that we have no desire to creep through your city looking for gunfights.
Most of us have had hunter-safety training as kids as well as the training required to obtain the permit, which would discourage us from firing a weapon recklessly.
I daresay the act will have very little to no effect on the law-enforcement operations or crime statistics in the city, since we’re not vigilantes. Barry Spence Newark, Del.
The proposed Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act would be the worst for New York City.
New York has one of the most regulated concealed-carry permits in the nation. I know; I had one for over 40 years.
We don’t need another thousand gun-toting civilians from our neighboring states, many of which have very lax regulations, coming into our state with more guns, legal or illegal.
We want to reduce gun violence, not increase it. D. Mann Miller Place