Cuomo OK with guns on commissioners
by James M. Odato
Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday said he is OK with his commissioners wearing weapons in the workplace as long as they have a license to carry.
The question arose after numerous reports that Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services Commissioner Jerome M. Hauer has been packing a gun for years despite a law that prohibits employees who are not law enforcement officers from bringing weapons into state facilities.
Cuomo qualified his statement to say he was comfortable with commissioners wearing a gun as long as they have a permit “and they’re in that field of work.”
He didn’t explain further. He also said he had not read reports on the state’s handling of Superstorm Sandy that were published on Sunday by the Times Union. He said he was not concerned that the “after action” studies prepared for Hauer’s division weren’t released to the public seven months after they were submitted.
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