{"id":460898,"date":"2025-12-20T22:09:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T22:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/460898\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T22:09:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T22:09:13","slug":"exclusive-jfks-grandson-jack-schlossberg-wants-to-hit-some-states-for-guns-flowing-to-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/460898\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | JFK’s grandson Jack Schlossberg wants to hit some states for guns flowing to NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

JFK\u2019s grandson wants to hit states with weak gun laws where it hurts.<\/p>\n

Congressional hopeful Jack Schlossberg\u2019s plan to tackle gun violence<\/a> would charge states penalties if they don\u2019t conduct stronger background checks for gun buyers \u2014 and their firearms end up at New York crime scenes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He would then give the funds collected to federal investigators under what he\u2019s calling the \u201cRicochet Rule.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not saying anything about the Second Amendment,\u201d the liberal 32-year-old candidate, who\u2019s running for US Rep. Jerry Nadler\u2019s 12 District seat<\/a>, told The Post.<\/p>\n

JFK\u201ds grandson, Jack Schlossberg, wants to penalize states whose guns end up at NY crime scenes. Ron Sachs \u2013 CNP for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s an illegal flow of guns into states across the country from a couple states with weaker gun laws,\u201d he said. \u201cWe should at least have a penalty to make sure that we can fund enforcement of this common sense idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

The move was prompted by \u201ca gun epidemic that is hurting New York,\u201d Schlossberg said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re calling it the \u2018Ricochet Rule\u2019 because guns ricochet into New York from other states but accountability should as well.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The funds would be used in part to investigate illegal gun trafficking. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Schlossberg is running for Jerry\u2019s Nadler\u2019s congressional seat. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

States with a disproportionate number of guns found at crime scenes in New York should face the penalty, Schlossberg said. Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cIt\u2019s very important for New York City because the vast majority of guns that are used in crimes are exported from states with weak gun laws and into our state with strong gun laws.\u201d<\/p>\n

The states with a \u201cdisproportionate number\u201d of guns found in connection with crimes in New York would be fined and the money would be given to the Department of Justice and\u00a0the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives,\u00a0the Kennedy heir said.<\/p>\n

Between 2017 and 2021, New York recovered 27,407 guns that were used in crimes and 21,863 of those crossed state lines, according to ATF data. Of that number, 68% came from states with no background check requirements.<\/p>\n

Guns that end up at city crime scenes are often from out of state, authorities have said. Anadolu Agency via Getty Images<\/p>\n

The amount of the penalty hasn\u2019t been determined but \u201cit would have to be significant enough to incentivize them to cooperate,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we should be trying to do something about this problem, not just when it\u2019s in the news,\u201d Schlossberg said. \u201cWe can\u2019t stop, we can\u2019t forget. We\u2019ve got to keep it up, because we\u2019re not powerless.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JFK\u2019s grandson wants to hit states with weak gun laws where it hurts. Congressional hopeful Jack Schlossberg\u2019s plan…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":460899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,42423,59162,12790,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,3677,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-460898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-guns","10":"tag-jack-schlossberg","11":"tag-john-f-kennedy","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-shootings","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115754183241215931","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}