They ♥ New York — but they ♥ their guns just as much.
Another dopey tourist was caught at Ground Zero Sunday, traipsing into the 9/11 Memorial with a handgun, law-enforcement sources said.
Ursula Jerry, 41, of Milwaukee never got past the guards. A bag screener spotted the weapon — a .38-caliber Kel-Tec semiautomatic with two rounds in the magazine — and called over a cop.
Jerry was charged with criminal possession of a handgun.
She said she didn’t mean to harm anyone and insisted she carried the weapon on the Amtrak train that brought her here from Wisconsin, where she said has a permit for the weapon, the sources said.
Cops were unable to confirm her story, but said it made little difference, since out-of-state permits aren’t valid in the city.
Jerry isn’t the first hick from the sticks to treat the WTC — and the city in general — site like an Old West saloon.
In 2011, a Tennessee woman was also busted at the memorial for bringing a Kel-Tec pistol into the memorial — and trying to check the handgun like a handbag.
In July, a Georgia tourist who apparently thought he would have no problem strolling into the Empire State Building with a loaded gun, was arrested after he, too, tried to check the weapon at the door.
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