MACHINE GUN SCANDAL: BLOOMBERG LOOKING IN WRONG PLACE

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Lots of "little" people go to jail for minor violations of the 1934 NFA but not others........ for real law breaking violations.

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NEWS RELEASE
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ALBANY MACHINE GUN SCANDAL: BLOOMBERG LOOKING IN WRONG PLACE, SAYS SAF

For Immediate Release: 10/10/2007

BELLEVUE, WA – The renewed scandal involving alleged missing machine guns that had been secretly and illicitly purchased by officers with the Albany, NY Police Department several years ago suggests that if New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants to go after illegal guns, he need only drive up the Hudson River with his rogue investigators and turn them loose, the Second Amendment Foundation said today.


The Albany Times Union reported this week that dozens of automatic weapons, obtained apparently without approval by police officers in 1993 and 1994 – during the first Clinton Administration – were originally thought to have been rounded up and destroyed a few years ago. But now, the newspaper said, some of these guns are apparently still missing. One of the guns was reportedly found at a Texas gun store. Another of the guns had been obtained by an assistant district attorney, who ultimately turned it in about four years ago. It was not explained why he had the gun in the first place, but he certainly should have known better, SAF said.


“While Mayor Bloomberg has been bullying gun shops in other states for alleged illegal gun trafficking, he might want to send his vigilante private investigators to harass the Keystone Kops of the Albany Police Department,” said SAF founder Alan Gottlieb. “And instead of suing gun dealers for firearms that show up in New York City crimes, maybe he ought to apologize to the citizens of Texas for the fact that an illicit Albany machine gun showed up in their state.


“Bloomberg and people like him repeatedly argue that one type of firearm or another should be restricted to the police and military,” he continued. “This case, and similar ones in Oregon and Michigan where police officers were charged with federal firearms violations, demonstrates just how ridiculous that argument is. We’re surprised that none of the officers in the Albany scandal were prosecuted.


“Perhaps the worst part about this scandal is that it is a black mark against all the good, decent police officers out there who wouldn’t dream of being mixed up in something like this,” Gottlieb observed. “Millions of law-abiding American citizens, including thousands who currently own fully-automatic firearms, have never been involved in anything remotely similar to this fiasco, yet Mike Bloomberg wants to strip them of their gun rights.


“Contrary to what the Bloomberg Bunch says, maybe these guns should be restricted to anybody but the police,” Gottlieb concluded.


The Second Amendment Foundation (www.saf.org) is the nations oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to more than 600,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun control. SAF has previously funded successful firearms-related suits against the cities of Los Angeles; New Haven, CT; and San Francisco on behalf of American gun owners, a lawsuit against the cities suing gun makers and an amicus brief and fund for the Emerson case holding the Second Amendment as an individual right.

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Good post!

That was really interesting - Especially in view of the fact that Michael Bloomberg and his NYC gang of lawyers and far-ranging field investigators recently raked Dunkelberger's Sports Outfitters in Stroudsburg over the legal coals. Bloomberg forced the store to open its firearms sales records to New York investigators as well as to provide prompt notification of any firearm purchase completed by someone from NYC.

Alan Gottlieb is correct: Many normally law-abiding honest citizens have been caught up in and subsequently pilloried for minor infractions of the 1934 National Firearms Act. In contrast the New York law enforcement officers involved in this MAJOR INFRACTION of the federal law have quietly been given a, 'ticket to walk'.

It's a cynical double standard; and it's not right! Bloomberg likes to flex his legal muscles and use New York City tax revenues to push honest out-of-state merchants and citizens around in the hope of cowering everybody into getting out of the gun business and surrendering their firearms. At the same time he turns a tacit blind eye to official misconduct and lawbreaking by members of his own state's law enforcement community.

Personally I don't care how much marijuana Michael Bloomberg smokes. How about NYC's liberal mayor minding his own business, cleaning up his own house, and staying, the Hell, out of Stroudsburg!