ZD: “NYC is one of the safest cities in the US, if not the world”. This is because the cops go after illegal gun dealers and have used tactics to remove illegal guns from their streets. Stop and frisk was one of these tactics it scared the criminal from carrying weapons reducing the homicide rate.
Any Federal gun control law will have to standardize the gun permit process so that if you have a gun permit you can carry anywhere in the country similar to a drivers license. The problem is that for example a permit to carry in NY State isn’t valid in NYC. This would be the only way gun advocates would agree to any gun control.