Must be election season...
....and this is the fault of the gunshop, HOW?????
So the investigator is the one who broke the law!
...which in itself is a felony.
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?
They got the straw purchase frame up method from Mayor Daley and his gestapo chiefs.
"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?
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?
Didn't we just have a federal law passed that prohibited this kind of thing?
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??
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.
(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.)
WTF! The lawsuit should be dismissed immediately as frivolous as the gun shop didn't do anything illegal. This is harrassment pure and simple. Bloomberg should be sued for conspiracy to violate citizen's second amendment rights.
Bloomberg must get advice from AG Spitzer.
Did NY advise the local authorities about the NY sting outside the state?
They better have a story other than paperwork.
If the dealter was overt in knowing this was a straw man deal then they have problems.
It is interesting the article burries the fact 30 dealers had no issue.
Geez...I once sold a car to somebody who used it in an armed robbery....will the loony tunes be coming for me next?
When you buy the gun, doesnt one sign that you aree purchasing it for yourself. So what these agents did was illegal by signing under penalty of law that they were purchasing it for themselves. Whay arent the agents in trouble for lieing on a federal form????
In other news, Federal U.S. Attorneys for Georgia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Virginia charged several New York private investigators for 15 counts of straw man sales of firearms. The P.I.s posed as legal purchasers and then turned over the firearms to felons. One felon purports to be mayor of NYC.
At least two people had to be involved in each transaction. The buyer for his actions and the person who was not allowed to own a firearm but received on from the buyer. Prosecutors should be very busy for a while.