Jeffries, Stringer push for ‘smart guns’ for NYPD
De Blasio to ‘review proposal’
U.S. Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, NYC Comptroller Scott Stringer and the Metro Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) on Monday called on Mayor Bill de Blasio to use the city’s purchasing power to push gun manufacturers to create high-tech “smart guns” for the NYPD.
The press conference took place in the freezing cold on the steps of City Hall.
Jeffries pointed to the recent gang rape of an 18-year-old girl in Brownsville as just another in a sad series of events showing the need to fight gun violence.