From specialized NYPD units tasked with searching for illegal guns, to new laws imposing mandatory minimum sentences for illegal gun possession, to separate courts designed to speed up gun possession cases, efforts to reduce gun violence in New York City have focused on seizing illegal guns and maximizing the punishment for those in possession of them.
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