[NY Post] The Big Apple’s staggering surge in shootings amid the COVID-19 pandemic has led nearly 9,000 terrified New Yorkers to apply for gun permits — but the NYPD has signed off on fewer than 1,100
Andy Chernoff, who's owned Coliseum Gun Traders in Uniondale, Long Island, since 1979, said, "If I had to rely on New York City business, I'd be out of business."
"This isn't going away anytime soon. I bet these people don't get their licenses for a year and a half."
An NYPD source familiar with the situation said the License Division was too short-staffed to deal with the flood of new applications and also blamed an unofficial reluctance to process them.
"The politicians are generally against giving licenses, to begin with, so it's not a priority," the source said. |