New York City destroys more than 3,500 seize illegal firearms in gun chipper

New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Police Department NYPD Commissioner Jessica S Tisch on Thursday celebrated the destruction of seized illegal handguns and rifles The firearms were only a small portion of the more than seized firearms seized since Adams took over the administration The weapons were loaded onto a conveyor belt and fed to a gun chipper to be turned into scrap metal and recycled In the current era we say goodbye and good riddance to thousands of illegal guns that no longer threaten the safety of our neighborhoods our families or our children by sending over illegal guns off to their final destination into a gun chipper to be turned into scrap metal and eventually recycled Adams mentioned at a press conference NEW YORK GUN CONTROL REGIME HANDED DEFEAT IN COURT These guns will never be used again to endanger another child terrify another New Yorker or destroy another life Although today's destruction has dammed up one more river that leads to the sea of violence we know that there is invariably more work to be done We will keep pressing for more more officers more safety more results And because of our continued mission to eradicate gun violence New York City continues to be the safest big city in America As the guns were put through the shredder Adams petitioned the families of those affected by gun violence to call out their slain relatives names I want to thank them for taking on this major project NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch reported These guns have no place in our neighborhoods They stoked fear inflicted pain and destroyed lives And they belong right here in the tear box of an industrial metal shredder The recycled firearm material is being donated to the School of Cooperative Technical Learning Coop Tech where students will weld the metal into a memorial to honor casualties and their families who have been affected by gun violence An official message from Mayor Adams declared that out of the more than guns seized since the beginning of his administration over of them have been identified as ghost guns These are unserialized and untraceable firearms that are through -D printers These types of firearms often end up in the hands of criminals as well as underage purchasers according to the declaration Since the NYPD has recovered nearly ghost guns In Adams' first month in office he distributed the Blueprint to End Gun Violence which laid out his priorities to at once address the emergency of guns on New York City streets NYC EXECUTIVE USED APARTMENT TO RAPE TORTURE WOMEN IN 'CALCULATED CAMPAIGN OF VIOLENCE' PROSECUTORSIn March the NYPD launched its Neighborhood Safety Teams to focus on gun violence prevention in areas that account for a disproportionate number of citywide shootings From day one this administration has mounted an all out effort to reduce gun violence Adams noted From our gun violence prevention task force to our neighborhood safety teams I ve testified before Congress about gun violence urged the Supreme Court to uphold gun safety laws worked with leaders and mayors across the nation and sued the makers and marketers of ghost guns