Here's betting the NRA will try to make a martyr out of this

Tourist tried to check in gun at WTC site

The NRA types will love this example: licensed permit-holder from another state is at the 9/11 memorial and tries to do the "right" thing and check her gun -- never mind that carrying it in New York City is illegal.

They can use this as any example of why they want licensed carry permits to reciprocate in all 50 states.

I'll be shocked if NRA lawyers don't offer to help her.

....and she was from Tennessee, of course.

Update: A story in the Tennessean contains a pertinent bit that was not in the above-linked story:

...and when officers searched her they found two envelopes of what they suspected to be cocaine. She has not been arrested on any drug charges.

Not sure why they wouldn't charge her on the drug possession -- I'd imagine NYC officers know what cocaine looks like -- but with this tidbit, this story suddenly fits the narrative of the gun-control advocates slightly more than the NRA folks. A lot of folks want to carry concealed weapons for protection (which is dubious logic, but I digress), but a lot of folks carry concealed weapons because they're up to other more sinister deeds -- like buying/selling drugs.