NYC’s Subway AI Weapons Scanners Fail to Find a Single Gun

The Associated Press reports that a recent pilot program testing AI-powered weapons scanners in New York City subway stations resulted in over 100 false alerts, but no firearms were detected. Data from the New York Police Department, released Wednesday night, shows that the Evolv-manufactured scanners flagged a total of 118 false positives during nearly 3,000 … Read more

Staying Above Ground In NYC

If you want to stay above ground in New York City, then you better stay above ground, literally. Murders in the city’s subway system are surging this year, up 60% despite an overall reported drop in the crime rate.  The troubling trend of killings this year has the city on a collision course with the … Read more

NYC Subway Shooting: Brooklyn District Attorney Will Not File Charges

In follow-up to Jennifer Sensiba’s op-ed yesterday, “New Yorkers Sure Didn’t Get Much Safety For Their Lost 4A Rights,” here’s a little follow-up to the story, and coming from New York City, some may actually find it surprising. Following a recent incident that unfolded on a New York City subway, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office … Read more

New Yorkers Sure Didn’t Get Much Safety For Their Lost 4A Rights

“Where’s NYPD? Oh my God! Close the door! Close the door!” JUST IN: New Yorkers take cover and beg for the NYPD to come and save them after man is shot in the head. The incident happened inside the Hoyt-Schermerhorn subway station in Brooklyn. According to ABC 7, the shooter, 36, pulled out a gun … Read more

NY Gov Bans the Long Gun for National Guardsman Patrolling Subways

Apparently New Yorkers want to feel safe from the surge in subway crime in Metropolis, but the sight of big, scary rifles in the hands of those sent to protect them is just a little too much. As a result, New York Governor Kathy Hochul has directed the National Guard to cease carrying long guns … Read more

The Brooklyn Subway Attack Just Unraveled the Gun Control Argument Presented in NYSRPA v. Bruen

The attack that occurred in New York City subway yesterday is proof positive that gun control, as envisioned by the Gun Control Industry and like-minded politicians, simply does not work. Honest, hard-working people were going about their day in Brooklyn, headed to work. Thanks to the intransigence of their local and state governments, these people … Read more

It Should Have Been a Defensive Gun Use: Midtown Manhattan Edition

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A Pace University student was stabbed in the head by a NYC subway beggar on Monday after the student refused to provide a ‘charitable donation’ to the bum’s booze fund. The attacker is in custody and the student is expected to survive. This attack is atypical, because it didn’t happen in a back alley or seedy drug den, and it didn’t even happen in the middle of the night. Police say the violent mugging started out as some run-of-the-mill mid-afternoon panhandling, but the 42 year-old beggar turned violent when the 19 year-old student refused to give him money . . .

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