“I never fired a gun in school”: NYC Mayor Eric Adams (D) denies account in 2009 book he authored.

At his weekly press conference on Monday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) denied an account written in his 2009 book, “Don't Let It Happen,” in which he claimed to have accidentally fired a handgun at his schoolyard friends.

“I fired ... what book is this?” Adams said in response to a question from a reporter. “I never fired a gun in school.”

The reporter then read Adams a portion of the excerpt from the book: “You wrote that you ‘pointed what I thought was a toy gun at my group of friends and pulled the trigger. A round discharged, and only by the grace of God and my poor aim did the bullet miss my friends.’”

“You said it fired in school?” Adams asked.

Adams continued, “I think the person who, the co-author of the book, may have misunderstood the exact — someone — there was an incident in school, someone pointed a — they thought was a toy gun, and they may have misunderstood. That book never got into print because we never went through the proofreading aspect of it.”

The book can be ordered on Amazon and it does not list a co-author.