New York’s Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani is calling for a nationwide ban on assault rifles — like the one used by the gunman who opened fire Monday on the Manhattan high-rise that houses the NFL’s headquarters.

After returning from Uganda, where he celebrated his wedding, Mamdani visited the Bronx home of Didarul Islam, the New York police officer who was killed in Monday’s mass shooting. Speaking to reporters after meeting with Islam’s family, Mamdani distanced himself from a call he made in 2020 to defund the police, and accused his opponents of politicizing the shooting.

Zohran Mamdani: “And what I would also say in this moment is that it is beyond me that politicians are looking to use these days to score such cynical political points on the very day that I held the father of Officer Islam in my arms as he could not utter a single word and as I felt him sobbing at the memory of his 36-year-old son, who will never come home.”