After his hush money conviction the New York Police Department is quietly moving to strip former President Donald Trump's gun packing license. CNN's Chief Law Enforcement and Intelligence Analyst John Miller reported that a senior NYPD official confirmed the formal disarming move. "When he was convicted of those charges he became a convicted felon under New York state law, but also under federal law that says, if you're a convicted felon, you cannot be in possession of firearms or even ammunition," he said during a Wednesday appearance on CNN's "The Lead" with Jake Tapper.
Indeed, possessing firearms or ammunition by a convicted felon is prohibited by federal law . Miller reported how Trump's native New York suspended his concealed carry license that he had for over a decade was quietly suspended on April 1, 2023 shortly after he was criminally indicted on March 30 . So far, two of Trump's three pistols he was licensed to carry were forfeited to the NYPD a day later on March 31, 2023.
But it's the whereabouts Trump's third gun that Miller appeared to concede still remains unknown. "That's a key question," he admitted. "The New York guns are in the custody of the NYPD; we know where they are, we know how they got there through that process.
But the gun in Florida, we have asked the Trump camp...
to find out is the former president's still in possession of that firearm was it turned over to authorities in Florida?" He continued: "If so, what authorities? And when? And is there .
