[Arguendo]

The New York Sun reported that Bloomberg’s attorneys made the request. Alan Gottlieb, founder of the Second Amendment Foundation, said the move clearly shows that Bloomberg has “total disregard not only for the Second Amendment, but also the First.”

I have no opinion about whether a ban would be appropriate, but this claim is disingenuous. There's no free speech inside a courtroom, where parties are routinely banned from mentioning irrelevant topics that might nonetheless sway the jury.

[Darren McCarty]

I like the quote from their attorney. He knows what he's doing.

Still, Mr. Renzulli said he did not plan to oppose the city’s request regarding references to the Second Amendment. Mr. Renzulli, who has defended suits against the gun industry in Judge Weinstein’s courtroom before, said that in the past the defense has struck a deal with the plaintiffs on the matter: Lawyers for the gun industry won’t mention the Bill of Rights to the jury, if the plaintiffs don’t mention the National Rifle Association.

“We usually say we’re not talking about the Second Amendment and you’re not talking about the NRA as a huge lobbying group that controls the legislature,” Mr. Renzulli said.

He said he expected a similar agreement to be struck in the Adventure Outdoors case.

[mvpel]

I have no opinion about whether a ban would be appropriate, but this claim is disingenuous. There's no free speech inside a courtroom, where parties are routinely banned from mentioning irrelevant topics that might nonetheless sway the jury.

In the Nordyke v. King case, the plaintiff's attorney didn't mention the Second Amendment even though he wanted to, because California has no right to arms provision and the case was in state court. But the attorney for the county which banned gun shows mentioned it, and threw the door wide open for right-to-arms arguments in the briefs.