NYC Files Lawsuits Against Gun Shops

1010 WINS ^ | 15 May 2006 | NA

[neverdem]

NEW YORK -- The Bloomberg administration today announced a federal lawsuit against 15 out-of-state gun shops where it said firearms are sold illegally, and in some cases, end up in the hands of New York City criminals.

The city is suing gun dealers in Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Virginia that it says supply a significant portion of the guns that flow into New York. The suit asks the court to halt illegal sales and requests supervision and extra training for the dealers. It also seeks some damages and compensation.

The lawsuit is being Monday in federal court in Brooklyn.

The city's law department hired private investigators who fanned out to dealers in the five states over the past several weeks to prove what it says is already indicated by trace data.

The undercover investigators attempted "straw purchases,'' in which the buyer completes the paperwork and passes the background check, but later hands over the weapon to someone else who is not allowed to own a firearm.

The 15 dealers named in the suit sold guns to the undercover investigators. The city said the sales were refused at about 30 other shops.

[neverdem]

NYC sues 15 gun shops in five states, including Virginia

[P-40]

Must be election season...

[LIConFem]

And how is this Bloomie's business?

Oh, wait... he's a liberal. Doesn't need justification to behave as a fool. It's inherent to the title.

[edpc]

The undercover investigators attempted "straw purchases,'' in which the buyer completes the paperwork and passes the background check, but later hands over the weapon to someone else who is not allowed to own a firearm.

....and this is the fault of the gunshop, HOW?????

[Gator101]

The undercover investigators attempted "straw purchases,'' in which the buyer completes the paperwork and passes the background check, but later hands over the weapon to someone else who is not allowed to own a firearm.

So the investigator is the one who broke the law!

[Theoden]

Maybe they should go right to the source and sue the steel industry which supplies the metal which the gun manufacturers use.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The undercover investigators attempted "straw purchases..."

...which in itself is a felony.

[SittinYonder]

The lawsuit is being Monday in federal court in Brooklyn.

I don't think this is proper venue. Shouldn't they have to file suit in the federal district where each of the gun dealers are?

[Rummyfan]

See, the gun dealer is supposed to assign someone to the purchaser and the weapon to ensure that it is not illegally passed on to a third party.

Here in VA one of the specific questions on the form is 'are you purchasing this item for another party?'. What more are dealers supposed to do? If NY didn't have unconstitutional gun restrictions, they wouldn't have all those 'illegal' guns on the streets.

[junta]

They got the straw purchase frame up method from Mayor Daley and his gestapo chiefs.

[MeanWestTexan]

Of course.

A retailer in Georgia selling to a person standing in Georgia. All events occurred in Georgia. Lawsuit in Georgia.

I want the police in Georgia to charge Mayor Bloomberg, et al, with some Georgia felony.

Conspiracy to violate gun laws or somesuch.

[edcoil]

"the buyer completes the paperwork and passes the background check, but later hands over the weapon to someone else who is not allowed to own a firearm."

How is this the stores problem? It sounds like the store did its job. What, are we now going to go after WalMart when some buys aspirin for themselves but passes some out on a camping trip?

[Alberta's Child]

So does this mean that anyone who is the victim of a crime perpetrated by an illegal alien can sue New York City for maintaining a "sanctuary city" policy?

[Leatherneck_MT]

Didn't we just have a federal law passed that prohibited this kind of thing?

[SittinYonder]

I want the police in Georgia to charge Mayor Bloomberg, et al, with some Georgia felony.

I'll see what I can do.

[ZULU]

This is typical of the anti-Bill of Rights people like Democrat/Republican Bloomburg.

INstead of trying to use a "sting" to net gunshop owners trying to do a legitimate business, why don't these morons support laws with teeth in them - laws that put violent felons into the kind of Gulag-like prisons we ran back in the days of Al Capone, like Alcatraz??

[ClearCase_guy]

I've got to pick my jaw up off the floor ... hang on ...

When a government agent willfully violates the law, and then persecutes a business for the action performed by the government agent, we have truly entered the land of Atlas Shrugged.

I think a hard rains a' gonna fall.

[Leatherneck_MT]

"I want the police in Georgia to charge Mayor Bloomberg, et al, with some Georgia felony.

Conspiracy to violate gun laws or somesuch."

That and flagrant stupidity.

[pgyanke]

The undercover investigators attempted "straw purchases,'' in which the buyer completes the paperwork and passes the background check, but later hands over the weapon to someone else who is not allowed to own a firearm.

This is series investigative work! Who knew?