VA-ALERT: “Bloomberg Gun GiveAway” in the news again!
Date: Jan 26, 2007 12:09 AM
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Larry Pratt, with Gun Owners of America, sent me these links.

This is a great article and the link also shows the gun offered for
the drawing at Bob Moates gun store here in Midlothian (Richmond
area):

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/491820p-414136c.html

Mike fires up gun sales in Va.

Raffle named for ‘idiot’ mayor spurs bang-up biz

BY MICHAEL SAUL
DAILY NEWS CITY HALL BUREAU CHIEF

Dave Hancock, who works at the Bob Moates shop, shows off gun offered
as prize in Bloomberg raffle.
MIDLOTHIAN, Va. – Riled-up rednecks are snapping up tickets to a gun
raffle named after Mayor Bloomberg, already trip.ling business at one
dealer here.

“He’s an idiot,” said Richard Hill, manager of Bob Moates Sport Shop,
where a hand-scrawled sign on the counter tells customers to “Ask
about the Bloomberg Gun GiveAway.”

A pro-gun group is sponsoring the contest at three stores in Virginia
as payback for the mayor’s federal lawsuits against four dealers in
the state that Bloomberg says are illegally peddling weapons that end
up in the hands of New York criminals.

Bloomberg has sued 23 other out-of-state dealers.

“Mr. Bloomberg seems to think we as the dealer have control over that
gun after it’s bought and leaves the premises,” Hill said. “Sorry
-
criminals cause the problem. Get the criminals. Put ‘em in jail and
keep them there. They don’t do it again. Law enforcement ain’t our
job.”

Hill said the raffle has tripled business since it began 10 days ago.
For every $100 spent on anything in the store, customers receive a
red raffle ticket.

A drawing will be held this spring, and the winner will receive a
Para-Ordnance .45-caliber automatic, a military-style weapon worth
about $750. [Retail price according to Para-Ordnance is over $900 -
PVC]

Dave Hancock, a longtime employee of the store, called the lawsuit an
“absolute joke.”

“We go above and beyond. It’s not about making the sales, it’s about
making them the right way,” he said. “Let’s face it, you take a $500
gun that we make about $45 on. Why would we risk anything for that?
It’s not worth it.”

On Tuesday, Bloomberg called organizers of the raffle “sick people.”

The store, located on a busy strip next to a bank and across the
street from a hotel, has been open for about 45 years, selling
hunting, fishing and camping gear. “The lawsuit is stupid,” said
Glenn Anderson, 46, a contractor from Long Island who was visiting
his sister in the area. “Bloomberg being a Republican is a joke. He
never was. He never will be.”

When asked if he keeps a gun in his home, Anderson replied, “I have a
gun in the car.”

“We’re basically driving money and customers to the very stores that
he’s trying to destroy,” said Philip Van Cleave, president of the
Virginia Citizens Defense League, which is sponsoring the contest.

Bloomberg “might hold the gospel in New York. He don’t make too much
waves down this way,” Hill said. “He’s just the mayor of New York,
after all.”

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BUT, the paper does serve New York City, so… here comes the
anti-gun logic: If only Virginia didn’t sell guns, New York wouldn’t
have criminals. Wait until you see what this reporter blames gun
stores in Virginia for causing in New York City. You might grab the
duct tape before reading on. My comments in brackets:

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/491817p-414156c.html

It’s just a barrel of horror

One thing about those boys down in Virginia is they don’t let being
associated with violent death and absolute terror keep them from
having a good laugh.

Sure, ol’ Bob Moates’ Sport Shop in the fun burg of Midlothian, Va.,
sold 22 guns in recent years that were subsequently recovered by the
NYPD.

Sure, those guns figured in a killing in Queens and at least one
shooting in the Bronx.

Sure, a 15-year-old used another of the guns to rob a Bronx shoe
store, pressing the .38-caliber weapon to a woman’s head and
demanding money.

Sure, other guns twice turned up in the hands of 16-year-olds.

But, hey, all this didn’t stop ol’ Bob Moates’ Sport Shop from having
a “Bloomberg Gun GiveAway,” where every customer who spends $100 gets
a raffle ticket and a chance for a free weapon.

The Bloomberg in question being our mayor, whose administration has
filed lawsuits in Brooklyn Federal Court against Moates’ and 26 other
gun dealers for illegal weapon sales.

The court papers filed in City of New York vs. Bob Moates Sport Shop
say that two undercover investigators visited there last March 14.
One investigator, a man, queried the clerk at length about a Taurus
9-mm.

The other investigator, a woman, wandered off until the man called
her over to sign the federal paperwork necessary to buy the weapon.
The man paid for the gun in cash and the clerk handed him the change.

“Other than completing the federal paperwork, the female investigator
did not participate in the transaction in any manner,” the papers
filed by the city note.

A similar illegal straw purchase involving a proxy buyer was repeated
by investigators at each of the other shops named in the suits,
including Old Dominion Gun and Tackle in Danville, Va.

Old Dominion has joined the “Bloomberg Gun GiveAway” despite selling
numerous guns that were subsequently used in crimes inNew York and
elsewhere. One straw purchaser there bought nine 9-mm. Hi-Point
pistols that her drug-addict husband then traded for crack. She might
have made it 10 with a “Bloomberg Gun GiveAway.”

In its two lawsuits, the Bloomberg administration notes that the NYPD
recovered 70,000 illegal guns in the decade beginning in 1995, some
5,500 in 2005 alone. Each of these seizures involved mortal danger
for the officers involved.

The papers further report that handguns killed some 5,400 New Yorkers
in that period. Two of those killed in 2003 were NYPD Detectives
Rodney (Jay) Andrews and James Nemorin. They were murdered by a gun
dealer while making an undercover firearms buy. The killer, Ronell
Wilson, is presently facing a death-penalty hearing in the same
Brooklyn courthouse where the city filed its two suits.

To look at Wilson in the courtroom is to know that without a gun he
could pose little threat to anybody except maybe himself. With a gun,
he needed only flex his index finger once to shoot one detective from
behind. He then calmly pulled the trigger a second time as the other
detective begged for his life.

Yesterday, Wilson read a letter saying he was sorry. His family says
that everybody makes mistakes. The jury is expected to decide next
week whether he should be executed for a crime he could not have
committed with any weapon but a gun.

Meanwhile, the police keep making gun collars at the rate of more
than a dozen a day. The possibility of a gun arises many more times
than that. A chaotic incident in Queens led cops to unleash 50 rounds
on a carload of unarmed men, killing Sean Bell on his wedding day.

“We didn’t even have a pair of scissors in the car,” one of the young
men who was seriously wounded said yesterday. “I don’t know what
started this.”

What started it was the fear of guns. [Now Virginia gun dealers are
being accused of making cops shoot unarmed people in New York City -
PVC] The very fact that one cop emptied his weapon, reloaded and
emptied it again is proof that he was scared beyond all reason.
[Perhaps being an officer was the wrong line of work for this person?
- PVC]

Since that incident, there has been much talk about “contagious
shooting.” The shooting would never have started at all unless one of
the cops thought he was in imminent danger.

The only thing that can present such danger is a gun such as is sold
by those funny boys down in Virginia. [I'll bet you thought I was
exaggerating when I said Michael Daly was going to blame Virginia gun
dealers for the police shooting unarmed citizens in New York City -
PVC] Too bad they are not facing criminal charges as well as civil.
Then they could take part in a big Bloomberg GoAway, and get a ticket
to jail. [If Bloomberg had the foggiest idea on what to do with the
real criminals in New York City, the crime rate there would plummet -
PVC]

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