I’m thinking of suing Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Bloomberg is a public nuisance who is personally responsible for making it harder and more expensive for law abiding citizens to purchase guns in the United States.
Bloomberg is proud that he is attacking my local gun store, Adventure Outdoors, and making my prices go up. From a press release put out by the smarmwhores of New York City:
The Adventure Outdoors case has received prominent media attention, since it was the first of the two lawsuits to go to trial. Brooklyn Federal Court Judge Jack Weinstein had been expected to preside over this civil case, with an “advisory jury.” The City claimed that Adventure Outdoors had created a “public nuisance” in New York by selling weapons that later ended up being used in crimes here.
In other words, the City alleged that Adventure Outdoors sold guns to persons not entitled to buy them, and those guns found their way to NYC, where they created a public nuisance. The City hired an investigative agency, the James Mintz Group, to make simulated “straw purchases” (i.e. those in which one person submits to a background check for a gun actually to be used by someone else, usually someone who couldn’t get a gun legally on his or her own). The Mintz Group sent undercover buyers to five states, including Georgia where Adventure Outdoors is located, where they bought weapons in these simulated straw purchases.
Judge Weinstein recently ruled that, in his view, there is no constitutional right to a jury in this case, since it is a nuisance case in which the City is seeking only injunctive relief. However, he also agreed to seat an “advisory jury” – i.e. one that would hear the evidence and decide who should win – so that if it turned out he was wrong, and an appellate court found there was a right to a constitutional jury, the case would not have to be retried. (In other words, a jury verdict would have already been entered.)
The real nuisance here is the city of New York and King Bloomberg. I have been line several times at Adventure Outdoors and observed employees following the law and denying gun purchases to those who didn’t qualify, whether on a technicality or because of a criminal record. For the city of New York to send dishonest purchasers in to gun stores and then claim that the store is selling guns knowing they will be used is crimes is dishonest. In fact, it is the criminals who commit the crimes that are responsible for their crimes, not a gun store. But this is what happens when you put an egotistical crusading do-gooder in power.
Adventure Outdoors is countersuing Bloomberg in Cobb County, where they can at least get representation and perhaps a fair trial. Obviously, any trial taking place in the city of New York will be biased in favor of the muncipality.
“Mr. Bloomberg feels he is above the law,” Marger said. “In fact, he believes he is the law. He believes that his billions and connections gained through the use of those billions make him immune to that which we commoners endure.”
Bloomberg claims Adventure Outdoors had sold 21 guns, later used in various crimes in New York between 1994 and 2001, and called the business a “rogue gun dealer.” Those comments, which were picked up in national and local media, have affected sales, Barr and Marger claim.
I am going to be purchasing a rifle from Adventure Outdoors tomorrow, excercising my rights. These rights are fading away. The culture that says you are responsible enough to be trusted with a firearm is under attack from every side. Americans are being systemically taught that they are too stupid and too irrational to be trusted with guns, and that defense of human life is someone else’s job. I disagree. I support honest gun dealers. If you do as well, please visit Adventure Outdoors. Support Jay Wallace. Buy a gun from his store.