We'll see how this plays out.
NY, per capita, is one of the safest states in the Union when it comes to gun-related deaths
For starters, don't go by anti-gunner's opinions of 'gun safety' which involve ridiculous laws, not statistics. Gifford's and others scorecard ratings are commonly tied to the onerous legislation passed by a given jurisdiction, and subject to the anti-gun bias in their assumption that any given legislation has any efficacy.
This isn't a New York State regulation but New York City.
As a State, using 2014 numbers from the FBI's UCR data, New York State was roughly number 30 in the nation for murder rate. (Murders per 100K population) Don't confuse that with the number of murders, because that rate times the (population/100,000) will give the number of murders. New York is one of the more populous states.
SourceSo, while New York State's murder rate (3.1/100K) may hover just above that of North Dakota in 2014 (3.0/100K)*, the North Dakota rate amounts to 22 bodies (a bad year) while New York State's amounts to 612 people dead.
But for New York City, the murder rate is different, at 3.9/100,000, instead of the State's 3.1, which with a population of 8,47 million translates into 330 dead people, over half of the dead folks in a lot less space than the rest of the State.
Now, this doesn't control for type of murder, nor for those shot, but unexpired ("aggravated assault"), just for dead folks who were killed intentionally (murder and non-negligent manslaughter), but that would make the City over 25% less safe than the State as a whole (including the City).
If you can come up with better numbers (statistical comparisons), I'd love to see them.
*North Dakota saw an uptick in violent crime during the boom years, especially after some bleep went on TV with a series called "Boomtown USA" advertising to criminal elements all over the nation that they could make a fortune and operate unmolested here because police were overwhelmed by towns doubling and more in population. (If I ever meet that SOB, I owe him a beat down, and there'd be a long line of locals who'd want in on it.)