Gag on 2nd Amendment Is City’s Aim in Guns Suit

New York Sun ^ | 09 may 08 | JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN

[rellimpank]

Lawyers for Mayor Bloomberg are asking a judge to ban any reference to the Second Amendment during the upcoming trial of a gun shop owner who was sued by the city. While trials are often tightly choreographed, with lawyers routinely instructed to not tell certain facts to a jury, a gag order on a section of the Constitution would be an oddity.

“Apparently Mayor Bloomberg has a problem with both the First and the Second amendments,” Lawrence Keane, the general counsel of a firearms industry association, the National Shooting Sports Foundation, said. The trial, set to begin May 27, involves a Georgia gun shop, Adventure Outdoors, which the city alleges is responsible

[rellimpank]

---this happened in Denver in a Second Amendment case some years ago--

[Eurale]

Incredible!

[rellimpank]

-—possible correction—may have been the Colorado constitution as it was a state case, IIRC—

[Puppage]

Lawyers for Mayor Bloomberg are asking a judge to ban any reference to the Second Amendment during the upcoming trial of a gun shop owner who was sued by the city

I hate it when those pesky Rights get in the way of a good legal thrashing.

[messierhunter]

How can they do that??? It’s the constitution, it shouldn’t be gagable! Oh well, once again liberals prove that they do not believe in the existence of inalienable righs.

[unixfox]

Shakespeare should have included judges in his famous statement.

[doodad]

They all start as lawyers.

[Lurker]

They all start as lawyers.

What does one call the lawyer who graduated last in his class and has an IQ of equivalent to room temperature?

"Your Honor."

L

[Joe Brower]

"Apparently Mayor Bloomberg has a problem with both the First and the Second amendments"

Bloomberg and creatures like him have a problem with anything that gets in the way of their agenda. He and his cronies break the law when it suits them and then use their considerable money and political influence to buy their way free.

[brooklyn dave]

This is where you appeal it to the Federal court on Constitutional grounds. Hell with the New York courts.

[brooklyn dave]

And Bloomberg is a typical liberal crusader who always has an agenda.

[facedown]

Bloomberg and creatures like him have a problem with anything that gets in the way of their agenda. He and his cronies break the law when it suits them and then use their considerable money and political influence to buy their way free.

There is no law in this country. There are only rules made up by lawyers for the benefit of lawyers.

[bmwcyle]

“Any references by counsel to the Second Amendment or analogous state constitutional provisions are likewise irrelevant,” the brief states.

Bloomberg is a Fascist.

[from occupied ga]

Bloomberg and creatures like him

Are the reason for the 2nd amendment.

[Dead Corpse]

The Rick Stanley case. I remember. At the time, a lot of folks here painted Rick as a nut case.

He was, but he should have been OUR nut case as his point on RKBA was dead on...

[Dead Corpse]

Are the reason for the 2nd amendment.

Riddle of Steel.

It isn't the weapon, it's the will to use it that makes it effective.

[NY.SS-Bar9]

Where do I sign up for jury duty?

[from occupied ga]

It isn't the weapon, it's the will to use it that makes it effective.

Either one without the other is useless. "My rifle without me is useless. Without my rifle I am uselss"

[Dick Bachert]

Yes, it’s called “The Clinton/Spitzer Effect” and it is successful more often than not.

[Dead Corpse]

I never did agree with that. Use a rock to gain a knife. Fashion a spear to gain a bow. Use a bow to gain a pistol. Use a pistol to gain a rifle...

Anything can be a weapon if only you have the will to use it.

The threat to our "rulers" implied in the Citizens Right to keep and bear arms is pretty freakin' hollow if it's just something we hold up, let flap in the wind, and then put away until the next screwing we get.