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

    05/09/2008 6:45:38 AM PDT · by rellimpank · 48 replies · 55+ views
    New York Sun ^ | 09 may 08 | JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN
    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...