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For Immediate Release: February 15, 2007 BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today called on New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his colleagues in the “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” coalition to devote all their resources to closing the government gun loophole. The Washington Post this week revealed that between February 2002 and September 2005, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported 160 missing firearms. That is in addition to the 352 missing guns the FBI reported lost or stolen in a similar audit in 2002. The newspaper reported that at least 18 of...

Next to the cash register of the Bob Moates Sport Shop in Chesterfield County, near the tanks of live bait, is a sign telling customers about the Bloomberg Gun GiveAway. For every $100 that customers spend at the sporting goods and Civil War-relics dealership, they get one ticket for a chance to win a gun in a drawing held by the Virginia Citizens Defense League. The rules include a list of who is eligible to win, as well as a list of who isn't, among them New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his immediate family members. When Bloomberg began...