The Adams administration has been committed to public safety from the start, and getting illegal guns off our streets and out of our lives is core to that mission. Since the day I took office, the NYPD has seized more than 21,400 illegal firearms — and last week, I was able to help send many of these confiscated weapons to their final destination — a wood chipper that destroyed these guns so they can never be used to cause harm again.
The Reworld facility in Westbury is where the NYPD sends evidence, including illegal firearms, to be disposed of after it is no longer needed in a case. Members of our administration and the NYPD gathered there last Thursday with violence interrupters, anti-gun advocates, faith leaders, and the families of victims to help put these dangerous weapons into the gun chipper to be destroyed forever — ensuring they will never again endanger another child, terrify another New Yorker, or destroy another precious life. The destroyed guns will be turned into scrap metal, recycled, and sent to the School of Cooperative Technical Education, where students in the welding vocational program will finally make use of these products and create a memorial to honor victims of gun violence.
