The retired lieutenant had a valid permit to carry his weapon, Mr. Browne said.
Despite being EU citizens, mostly from Romania or Bulgaria, they are required under French law to have a valid permit to remain if they intend to stay longer than three months.
Nonetheless, the ordinance states that anyone who possesses a gun within the designated zones "without the written permission of the Borough Police Department" will be subject to the penalties "irrespective of whether such person possesses a valid permit to carry the firearm".
But in a broad space outside those inner security rings, near the arena, in a large area loosely known as the event zone, guns will be allowed in an open-carry situation and, with a valid permit, to be carried while concealed.
THE NEWS Gun advocates failed to push a measure through the Senate that would have allowed gun owners with valid permits in one state to carry concealed weapons in other states.
Law enforcement officials say they are spending more time writing tickets to those who have no valid permit but succumb to the allure of a blue-lined space.
Even though they held valid permits, the city claims they failed to obtain new stickers.
(The Saudi government estimated that 30 percent of the 2.5 million pilgrims last year went to Mecca without valid permits).
Every state institution in Germany is obliged to report migrants, who cannot provide a valid residence permit, to the police or migration authorities, according to §87 of the German Residence Act [Aufenthaltsgesetz] with few exceptions.
This year marks the centennial of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, a U.S. federal law that prohibits anyone from trying to "take, possess, import, export, transport, sell, purchase, barter, or offer for sale, purchase, or barter, any migratory bird, or the parts, nests, or eggs of such a bird except under the terms of a valid permit issued pursuant to Federal regulations".
