We had a deranged person who drove across the country with an automatic weapon with one intention, and that was to create death and destruction. That was his goal. That was his mission. And When you have gun laws outside our country, outside our city and state, that makes it readily and easy to possess those types of weapons, it makes cities like New York where we don't manufacture these weapons, it makes it difficult for us. But we have stepped up to the challenge. We removed close to 23,000 illegal guns off our streets, 3,100 this year alone. (20:59–21:21)
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Asserts that gun laws outside New York make it easy to possess weapons, impacting the city.
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