Yes he did, he spent more than a year in jail. Not for self defense but they got him on having an unregistered hand gun.
It's been a about 50+ years the last time New York City had any thing resembling common sense.
Oh, gosh, did I make a faux pas or what? And I lived through the whole disaster in live time! Don’t get over 50...the memory completely goes. As the evil Jimmy Breslin would know.