NYC Destroys 3,600 Illegal Guns With Wood Chipper One Day After Tragic Shooting of Elderly Woman

New York City destroys more than 3,500 seize illegal firearms in gun chipper

New York City Mayor Eric Adams, New York City Police Department (NYPD) and Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch, got together to celebrate the destruction of 3,375 seized illegal firearms.

Some Good Comes Out of a Gun Seizure

(New York, NY) — New York City officials are destroying illegal guns that have been seized and turning them into a gun violence memorial. Mayor Eric Adams and the police commissioner gathered with community and faith leaders to put more than 33-hundred guns through a recycling chipper. The material will then be donated to a New York City school where students learning welding will repurpose the metal and create a memorial to honor gun violence v…

NYC Destroys 3,600 Illegal Guns With Wood Chipper One Day After Tragic Shooting of Elderly Woman

NEW YORK — In a highly publicized event aimed at curbing gun violence, New York City officials on Thursday destroyed 3,600 illegal firearms using a powerful wood chipper — just 24 hours after an 84-year-old grandmother was tragically killed in a crossfire in Queens. Mayor Eric Adams and NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban presided over the […]

NYC crushes 3,600 seized guns in wood-chipper machine – and the scraps will be used for a memorial of gun violence victims

The stash loaded onto a conveyor belt and fed into a chipper included 3,575 semi-automatic weapons, revolvers and various pearl-handled guns used in now-closed criminal cases, Mayor Eric Adams said at the evidence destruction vendor Reworld in Westbury, New York.