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 connected Thursday celebrated the demolition of 3,375 seized amerciable handguns and 200 rifles.

The firearms were lone a tiny information of the much than 21,400 seized firearms seized since Adams took implicit the administration.

The weapons were loaded onto a conveyor loop and fed to a weapon chipper to beryllium turned into scrap metallic and recycled.

"Today, we accidental goodbye and bully riddance to thousands of amerciable guns that nary longer endanger the information of our neighborhoods, our families, oregon our children by sending implicit 3,500 amerciable guns disconnected to their last destination: into a weapon chipper to beryllium turned into scrap metallic and yet recycled," Adams said astatine a property conference. 

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New York City Mayor Eric Adams, New York City Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch celebrated the demolition of 3,375 seized amerciable handguns and 200 rifles. (FOX NEWS DIGITAL)

"These guns volition ne'er beryllium utilized again to endanger different child, terrify different New Yorker, oregon destruct different life. Although today's demolition has dammed up 1 much stream that leads to the oversea of violence, we cognize that determination is ever much enactment to beryllium done. We volition support pressing for much — much officers, much safety, much results. And due to the fact that of our continued ngo to eradicate weapon violence, New York City continues to beryllium the safest large metropolis successful America."

As the guns were enactment done the shredder, Adams asked the families of those affected by weapon unit to telephone retired their slain relatives’ names.

"I privation to convey them for taking connected this important project," NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said. "These guns person nary spot successful our neighborhoods. They stoked fear, inflicted pain, and destroyed lives. And they beryllium close here, successful the teardrop container of an concern metallic shredder."

The recycled firearm worldly is being donated to the School of Cooperative Technical Education (Coop Tech) wherever students volition weld the metallic into a memorial to grant victims and their families who person been affected by weapon violence.

An authoritative connection from Mayor Adams said that retired of the much than 21,400 guns seized since the opening of his administration, implicit 1,400 of them person been identified arsenic shade guns.

The recycled firearm worldly is being donated to the School of Cooperative Technical Education (Coop Tech) wherever students volition weld the metallic into a memorial to grant victims and their families who person been affected by weapon violence. (Fox News Digital)

These are unserialized and untraceable firearms that are done 3-D printers.  These types of firearms often extremity up successful the hands of criminals, arsenic good arsenic underage purchasers, according to the statement. 

Since 2018, the NYPD has recovered astir 2,000 shade guns. 

In Adams' archetypal period successful office, helium released the "Blueprint to End Gun Violence," which laid retired his priorities to instantly code the situation of guns connected New York City streets. 

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"The NYPD recovered 17 shade guns successful 2018, 48 successful 2019, 150 successful 2020, 263 successful 2021, 585 successful 2022, 394 successful 2023, 438 successful 2024, and already 71 truthful acold year-to-date," officials said said. (FOX NEWS DIGITAL)

In March 2022, the NYPD launched its Neighborhood Safety Teams to absorption connected weapon unit prevention successful areas that relationship for a disproportionate fig of citywide shootings.

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"From time one, this medication has mounted an each retired effort to trim weapon violence," Adams said. "From our weapon unit prevention task unit to our vicinity information teams, I’ve testified earlier Congress astir weapon violence, urged the Supreme Court to uphold weapon information laws, worked with leaders and mayors crossed the nation, and sued the makers and marketers of shade guns."