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More hypocrisy....
As a publicity ploy, "States United to Prevent Gun Violence" (an astroturf group created by Bloomberg) sets up a fake gun store in New York City, with seemingly real guns hanging on the walls. But not too long ago, New York City announced:
"Early in 2009, New York State Attorney General Andrew Cuomo sent letters ordering over 100 retailers to stop selling toy guns that weren't properly marked as imitations. Warnings went to manufacturers, local stores, and national retailers like Big Lots, Dollar Tree and Dollar General. Investigators visited dozens of stores throughout New York and found that most sold toy guns that didn't comply with the state law.
Toy guns can't be sold in New York City unless they are colored bright green, blue, red or another neon color. Over the past seven years, city officials have seized over 7,200 illegal toy guns from stores and levied $2.4 million in fines. Retailer Party City paid a record $500,000 in fines for 800 violations of the city's toy gun law.
New York City passed even tougher toy gun laws to take effect in 2010. Fines for selling illegal toy guns will go from $1,000 to $5,000 for a first offense and up to $8,000 for repeat offenses. It'll also be easier for the City to temporarily close stores that continue to break the law.
Toy Guns Can Be Deadly"
As usual, there is one set of laws for those who have connections, and another set of laws for everyone else.
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I'm sure they will get around to arresting those responsible for this heinous crime right after they get David Gregory for having that "high capacity clip" on his TV show down in D.C.
What I find amazing is that when I grew up in NYC during the 50's - 60's we carried cased rifles on the subway, my Jr. program was sponsored by the local police, college 's still had rifle teams, ranges and competitions, even high schools still had teams though that was down.
I first noticed it going downhill in 1967-68 when NYC introduced the Firearms ID for rifles and shotguns. After that is just seemed like an avalanche picking up speed and running over everything.
They got a theatrical license so it was not illegal BUT ,(don't you just love it when the anti-gun crowd always states that they support the 2nd Amendment BUT ... ,) i would think that the exemption would only cover people in the cast and crew. I don't think that if someone had a play in NY City they would be allowed to let the audience to pass around a handgun, real or not. The people who came into the store were not part of the crew so how could they be covered under the theatrical license? The following article states that anyone can handle and load the props but again that assumes that they are part of the cast or crew. http://www.props.eric-hart.com/features/nyc-theatrical-weapons-permit/
And yet it would have been wholly in character for them to have used cast members to play the part of the public. Do we know for sure they didn't?
Right out of the pages of *Animal Farm*.