{"id":33248,"date":"2024-06-15T15:16:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T15:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=33248"},"modified":"2024-06-15T15:16:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-15T15:16:11","slug":"mayor-adams-statement-after-supreme-court-overturns-bump-stock-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/33248","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Adams&#8217; statement after supreme court overturns bump stock ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEWYORK: New York city Mayor Eric Adams released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s decision in Garland v. Cargill, which overturned the federal prohibition on bump stocks \u2014 deadly devices that effectively convert assault weapons into machine guns.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That prohibition was instituted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in 2018, following the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history in Las Vegas in 2017. Bump stocks remain illegal in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn October 2017, 60 people were killed and at least 411 more were wounded in the deadliest mass shooting in American history, where a shooter used bump stocks to turn his guns into automatic weapons that fired 800 bullets per minute. The Supreme Court\u2019s decision today to overturn the bump stock ban will allow dangerous people to access these deadly devices once again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile these devices remain illegal in New York City, this decision \u2014 and the legacy of this Supreme Court \u2014 makes our country less safe. We need to dam every river that feeds the sea of gun violence, and here in New York City, we\u2019re doing everything in our power to do just that. We\u2019ve removed more than 16,000 illegal guns off of our streets in the last two years and invested nearly half a billion dollars in our Blueprint for Public Safety, which focuses on upstream solutions to prevent gun violence before a shot is even fired. As a result, we\u2019ve driven shootings and homicides down by double-digits in each full year of our administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the good work we\u2019re doing, however, is undermined by this Supreme Court\u2019s Second Amendment decisions, which collectively allow more dangerous weapons in the hands of more dangerous people, with fewer safeguards. We need Congress to step up and reinstate the prohibition on bump stocks before the next deadly mass shooting occurs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYORK: New York city Mayor Eric Adams released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s decision in Garland v. Cargill, which overturned the federal prohibition on bump stocks \u2014 deadly devices that effectively convert assault weapons into machine guns. That prohibition was instituted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in 2018, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33249,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33248\/revisions\/33249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}