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NYC Councilwoman Won’t Be Charged With Illegal Gun Possession Because Her Pistol Was Inoperable

March 5, 2025November 18, 2023 by Dan Zimmerman

Southern Brooklyn Councilmember Inna Vernikov is going to be cleared of an illegal gun charge, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office told THE CITY on Friday — despite social media photos from last month that appeared to show the Republican with a gun on her waist at a counter-protest against pro-Palestinian college students. A New York … Read more

New Yorkers Struggle to Come to Grips With the Fact That ‘Gun-Free Zone’ Signs Don’t Really Seem to Work

March 5, 2025February 12, 2023 by Dan Zimmerman

[A]t about 5:30 p.m. Thursday, as workers were hurrying to catch trains home and tourists were ambling toward hotels and Broadway theaters, a 22-year-old Bronx man was fatally shot near a Shake Shack restaurant on Eighth Avenue at West 44th Street. The shooting was the first since the creation of the expansive, signposted zone, the … Read more

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