If you can’t sue, then fine
In New York, since they can’t sue gun dealers, they want to fine them $100K per occurrence in which they sell illegal guns. That’s what they say but what they mean is they want to fine a dealer who lawfully sells a weapon then later that weapon is discovered to be illegal because it wound up in the hands of a criminal. After all, if dealers were selling illegal guns, that’s already illegal.
April 11th, 2006 at 8:22 pm
Apparently New York City is still under the mistaken belief that their legal authority extends beyond their city limits.
April 12th, 2006 at 8:33 am
I guess that also means that we can also sue police chiefs and other officers who leave their guns in their cars and then find out they have been stolen.
April 12th, 2006 at 12:27 pm
Now, if Chief Kerlickowski’s (sp?) gun shows up used in a crime in NYC, I will not stop laughing for a week.
Unlikely, since he’s Chief of the Seattle PD, but nothing’s impossible, only highly improbable.
And karma-wise, it would just be so perfect.