Gunning for us: Out-of-state weapons fuel firearm violence in New York City

New York is a big state and New York City is a big city — but the firearms used in crimes throughout the five boroughs overwhelmingly came from out of state, proof that it’s not protective state or local laws that are the problem, but the dangerously porous statutes of other states. A raft of new data from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives tracking 2017 to 2021 — before the disastrous Supreme Court decision in Bruen invalidating New York’s gun permitting system — shows that a whopping 93% of the 12,910 guns recovered from crimes here were linked to an initial sale...