{"id":85267,"date":"2022-09-02T21:09:13","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T02:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=85267"},"modified":"2022-09-02T21:09:13","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T02:09:13","slug":"85267","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=85267","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

The one who knocks: Mayor Adams vows door-to-door checks on gun permits<\/a><\/p>\n

He\u2019s certainly no criminal like Walter White, but Mayor Eric Adams is vowing to take up the \u201cBreaking Bad\u201d character\u2019s mantle as the \u201cone who knocks\u201d \u2014 at least when it comes to gun permits in New York City.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is really about using the good, old-fashioned methods of doing investigation,\u201d Adams said in an interview on MSNBC\u2019s \u201cMorning Joe\u201d Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I became a police officer, people knocked on my neighbor\u2019s doors and interviewed them and asked what type of person am I.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police officers will employ those \u201cgood old-fashioned\u201d methods of investigation like knocking on neighbors\u2019 doors as part of the background check requirements on potential gun permit holders included in\u00a0New York\u2019s new gun safety law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

State officials added extra requirements for individuals seeking concealed carry weapons permits that take effect today, Sept. 1, in the wake of the US Supreme Court\u2019s decision that overturned a 1913 state law mandating individuals to show \u201cproper cause\u201d for packing heat.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I think those are the same skills that\u2019s going to be used to look at not only social media but also knocking our neighbors\u2019 doors, speaking to people, finding out who this individual is that we are about to allow to carry a firearm in our city,\u201d said Adams, a former police captain.<\/p>\n

Background checks will now require applicants to sit down for an in-person interview, submit four character references, a list of former and current social media accounts spanning the prior three years and disclose the names of their spouse or any other adults living in their home.Permit renewals will also now be required every three years, instead of five years under the former law.<\/p>\n

NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said the department has tracked a 54% increase in carrying license applications ahead of the Thursday deadline, accounting for 1,579 applications filed since June 1 \u2014 compared to 1,024 filed during the same period in 2021.<\/p>\n

Officials also said the NYPD won\u2019t add additional officers to enforce the new rules in newly created gun-free zones like Times Square right off the bat, but Adams said he predicts the changes will stress the department\u2019s current resources.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not going to take police officers from those areas where we need police protection because of violence, upticks, but at the same time, it is going to really stretch out our law enforcement capabilities,\u201d said Adams on MSNBC.<\/p>\n

Adams has vowed to redeploy officers working desk jobs in an effort to get more cops on the streets and help get the city\u2019s\u00a0crime problem\u00a0under control.<\/p>\n

The Post\u00a0exclusively revealed\u00a0that the NYPD will soon require uniformed plant managers working in bureaus to go back on patrol<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The one who knocks: Mayor Adams vows door-to-door checks on gun permits He\u2019s certainly no criminal like Walter White, but Mayor Eric Adams is vowing to take up the \u201cBreaking Bad\u201d character\u2019s mantle as the \u201cone who knocks\u201d \u2014 at least when it comes to gun permits in New York City. \u201cIt is really about … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85268,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85267\/revisions\/85268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}