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- The City Council's standards and ethics committee unanimously decided against further investigation into Inna Vernikov, a Republican Brooklyn lawmaker, after she brought a firearm to a 2023 pro-Palestinian rally at Brooklyn College.
- Vernikov defended her actions as exercising her Second Amendment rights, citing rising crime.
- She was previously arrested for criminal possession of a firearm.
- The charges were dropped after it was found that the gun was rendered unusable.