The New York City "Sullivan Act" Gun Control Laws were originally enacted to keep guns out the hands of Blacks and Jews and other "Undesirable" ethnics that were flooding into the city.
Today it is always foisted on the citizens as a magnanimous act of civic protection and it worked favorably for decades to enable muggers to easily pick their victims with minimal chance of retaliation by the law abiding to protect themselves.
Arrest shows rights vary across country
Dec. 30, 2011An East Tennessee woman may have been trying to do the right thing when she asked to check her loaded handgun outside the Sept. 11 memorial in New York City and was arrested for illegal possession of a firearm.
But New York City Mayor Michael Bloombergand some Tennessee gun rights advocates say Meredith Graves, 39, should have known better than to have a gun in the city at all.
Graves was arrested on a single felony count of carrying a loaded firearm in Manhattan and posted a $2,000 bond Wednesday.
Her arrest highlights the confusing patchwork of concealed weapons laws across the nation and illustrates how gun owners must do their homework before traveling to other states and cities. A Tennessee gun permit is not recognized as valid in New York City.
“The problem is, there’s such vast inconsistency about what you can and can’t do. Think about what would happen if that level of inconsistency existed with the operation of motor vehicles,” said John Harris, a Nashville attorney who serves as the volunteer director of the Tennessee Firearms Association.
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