NYPD gets 47 guns off streets

Police confiscated 47 guns and arrested 57 people over the weekend across the city — including one man with 11 prior arrests — three for gun charges — an NYPD official said Tuesday.

“There were children and families playing in the park and just like that, a few feet away, someone is carrying an illegal firearm,” Chief of Patrol Jeffrey Maddrey said at a press conference announcing the arrests.

The third-time alleged gun offender he cited was Octavous Fayton, 41, whose most recent bust was at 6:30 p.m. Sunday inside Hylan Park at East 216th Street and Bronx Boulevard, police said.

“I just want to use this one incident as a microcosm,” Maddrey said. “This is happening everywhere where people are walking around with illegal firearms and they’re right in our communities, which is creating a hazard.”

Fayton was hit with gun charges, reckless driving and various traffic violations.

“I applaud the police,” said Jackie Rowe-Adams, 74, who co-founded Harlem Mothers & Fathers S.A.V.E after losing two of her sons to gun violence — one at age 17 in the ’80s, the other at 28 in the ’90s.

“I am very proud of NYPD because this is what we need. Enough is enough,” Rowe-Adams said at the event. She said the police aren’t “killing us. We’re killing us.”