By now, the story of the Tennessee woman who was arrested after asking a NYC police officer how to appropriately check her legally registered handgun before visiting the Ground Zero site is well known. What is less publicized is the bizarre and extreme antics of NYC Mayor Mike Bloomberg against the Second Amendment.
New York's "Sullivan Law," which virtually nullifies the Second Amendment, has, unfortunately, been on the books for decades. But under Mayor Bloomberg, it has been pushed to levels which border on the deranged. He has, for example, dispatched city cops to other states to examine gun sales which are legal in those jurisdictions.
He has even turned his attention to toy guns. Not realistic looking replicas, but plastic, orange-tipped toys that a four year old would play with. A city bodega owned was fined $30,000 for displaying three toy cowboy sets that contained a plastic "sheriffs badge," and a flimsy-looking six shooter with a bright orange tip.
The sale of these toys are perfectly legal, even under NYC law. The fines will probably be overturned, but it will cost the store owner thousands in legal fees to do so. The mayor's goal in doing this sort of thing is to intimidate the public into accepting his personal obsession against personal self-protection, an obsession so extreme that even allowing children to play traditional American cowboy games offends his warped sensibility.
It must be noted that even while New Yorkers are unconstitutionally prohibited from taking steps for self protection, the Mayor has seen fit to reduce his police force by 25%.
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