NY Gov Blasts “Shocking” SCOTUS Ruling On Guns

Spectrum News has the transcript:

Does everyone understand what a concealed weapon means? That you have no forewarning. That someone can hide a weapon on them and go into our subways, go into our grocery stores, like stores up in Buffalo, New York, where I’m from. Go into a school in Parkland or Uvalde, This could place millions of New Yorkers in harm’s way.

As governor of the state of New York, my number one priority is to keep New Yorkers safe, but today the Supreme Court is sending us backwards in our efforts to protect families and prevent gun violence.

And it’s particularly painful that this came down at this moment, when we are still dealing with families in pain from mass shootings that have occurred, the loss of life, their beloved children and grandchildren.

I’m prepared to call the Legislature back into session to deal with this. We’ve been in contact with leadership — we’re just looking at dates — but I will say, we are not powerless in this situation.

We’re not going to cede our rights that easily, despite the best efforts of the politicized Supreme Court of the United States of America.

This decision isn’t just reckless, it’s reprehensible. It’s not what New Yorkers want, and we should have the right of determination of what we want to do in terms of our gun laws in our state.

“We’re supposed to go back to what was in place since 1788 … I would like to point out to the Supreme Court justices that the only weapons at the time were muskets.”

— Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) calls this a “dark day” as SCOTUS strikes down the state’s concealed carry law pic.twitter.com/ThRF3flwux

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