They\u2019re preparing for a Mamdani administration lox, stock and barrel.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Jewish New Yorkers are arming themselves before an anti-Israel \u201cmayor who despises us\u201d takes the helm of New York City, several told The Post this week.<\/p>\n
They want to \u201chave a say in our protection and not have to rely on others,\u201d one said.<\/p>\n
Michael Bergida, 30, is the Orthodox owner of Marine Park\u2019s Samson Armory, the first new gun shop in Brooklyn in over half a century. Helayne Seidman<\/p>\n
The morning after mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani\u2019s victory, firearms instructors and gun shop owners were flooded with urgent pleas. \u201cIt\u2019s getting busy because of him,\u201d said longtime gun safety instructor Lance Dashefsky.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Conceal carry permit requests rose 14% from 620 in June, when Zo won the Dem primary, to 706 in August, according to the latest NYPD data.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Licenses can take between six months and a year<\/a> to get in NYC, and only after completing a mandatory state concealed-carry class<\/a> that includes 16 hours of classroom study and two hours of live fire training.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dashefsky, 57, who expects the numbers to soar even higher, caters to the new crowd by providing bagels, lox and a shmear during a typical Sunday class.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI always ask people in class why they want a gun,\u201d said Dashefsky. \u201cAnd now the answer is Mamdani.\u201d<\/p>\n Brooklyn firearms instructor Ross Den said anyone who was ever on the fence about getting a concealed carry weapon, is no longer.\u00a0<\/p>\n Samson Armory, the gun store that announces in Hebrew is closed on Shabbat, is a nod to the Biblical Israelite warrior and symbol of sheer strength. Helayne Seidman<\/p>\n That kosher cohort includes Jewish doctors, lawyers, plumbers and even rabbis, he continued.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are plenty of rabbis who carry \u2013 shul is where the greatest threat is,\u201d said Den, adding \u201cPeople are beginning to wake up and are now realizing they have to defend themselves and not rely on the cavalry to come save them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Bringing a concealed carry weapon to shul is legal as long as the armed congregant is designated by the house of worship as a security volunteer, according to Den.\u00a0<\/p>\n Michael Bergida \u2014 who named his two-month-old gun shop in Marine Park, Brooklyn, Samson Armory<\/a>, a nod to the Biblical Israelite warrior and symbol of sheer strength \u2014 predicted \u201cchaos\u201d under the incoming radical socialist mayor, and is seeing a sharp uptick in business.\u00a0<\/p>\n Bergida, shown here working with a customer, said the post-election climate in the city is \u201clike doomsday prepping \u2013 people are loading up ammo.\u201d Helayne Seidman<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s like doomsday prepping \u2013 people are loading up ammo,\u201d said Bergida, 30, who\u2019s also a NRA-certified firearms instructor and trainer. \u201cI have a passion to prep Jews.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe NYPD is all retiring \u2013 we have to fight for ourselves. People are freaking out over Mamdani \u2013 anyone who has any Christian-Judeo values,\u201d Bergida claimed, adding that he largely works with the Jewish community who are tougher than bubbe\u2019s brisket.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re probably the only gun store to have a minyan,\u201d said the 30-year-old Orthodox owner about the Jewish gathering for prayer who defiantly declared he\u2019s not getting out of dodge. \u201cWe ain\u2019t fleeing\u2014 we\u2019re here to stay. We\u2019re not victims anymore.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Firearms instructor Ross Den, who said \u201cpeople are beginning to wake up\u201d after the election, seen here working with a student during dry fire practice. Courtesy of Ross Den<\/p>\n Mamdani, founder of his college Students for Justice in Palestine chapter and supporter of the antisemitic Boycott, Divest, Sanction movement, outrageously pronounced<\/a> that \u201cwhen the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it\u2019s been laced by the IDF\u201d as an assemblyman in 2023. <\/p>\n The Muslim radical socialist has refused to recognize Israel\u2019s right to exist<\/a> as a Jewish state and vowed to arrest the Israeli PM<\/a> on his next visit to the Big Apple.<\/p>\n