Many of the 750 troops Hochul deployed Wednesday to check riders' backpacks hauling laptops or school books or bags carrying groceries carried M4 carbines, military assault rifles whose 5.56mm rounds can defeat some body armor.
After a flurry of news coverage showing the rifle-carrying Guard members checking straphangers' totes at Grand Central and Penn Station, the governor ordered the troops to carry out their work without their large guns.
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