The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Ownership responds to the Justice Department telling Bloomberg to knock it off:

“The response by the Bush Administration’s Justice Department to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s efforts to combat illegal gun trafficking come across as an effort to silence the messenger rather than respond to the problem of a rise in violent crime,” according to Paul Helmke, President of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.

No, the response comes across as telling a mayor he has no authority in other states to break the law by having agents of his city engage in illegal firearm transactions known as straw purchases. More:

Mayor Bloomberg, along with Mayor Thomas Menino of Boston, helped start a Coalition of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, which now represents over 150 mayors. The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence launched its own Campaign Against Illegal Guns in March 2006 and has been working to support the efforts of Mayor Bloomberg and the other mayors to stop illegal gun trafficking.

That would be the anti-gun group that Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam is a member of.

Posted in uncategorized on February 14th, 2007 by SayUncle | RSS 2.0 |