Mayor Bloomberg to run anti-illegal gun ad during Super Bowl

The biggest score of all at the Super Bowl might be made by Mayor Bloomberg.

In an unprecedented move, the mayor and his national coalition against illegal guns plan to air a 30-second ad during the big game, which draws some of the highest TV ratings of the year and traditionally serves as a platform for memorable and very expensive commercials. [snip]


Bloomberg has been frustrated by Congress' refusal to impose stricter regulations on sales at gun shows, even to the point where he's authorized undercover sting operations in states across the nation to demonstrate how easy it is to circumvent federal weapons regulations.


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The strange birth of NY’s gun laws

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Recent months have seen a former Marine from Indiana, a Tea Party activist from California and a nurse from Tennessee all arrested and charged in New York City for possession of firearms they had legal permits to carry back home. All were “nabbed” when they naively sought to check the weapon with security.

These innocents fell afoul of the nation’s toughest gun laws. But few New Yorkers know how those laws came to be.

The father of New York gun control was Democratic city pol “Big Tim “Sullivan — a state senator and Tammany Hall crook, a criminal overseer of the gangs of New York.

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Sullivan knew the gangs would flout the law, but appearances were more important than results. Young toughs took to sewing the pockets of their coats shut, so that cops couldn’t plant firearms on them, and many gangsters stashed their weapons inside their girlfriends’ “bird cages” — wire-mesh fashion contraptions around which women would wind their hair.

Ordinary citizens, on the other hand, were disarmed, which solved another problem: Gangsters had been bitterly complaining to Tammany that their victims sometimes shot back at them.

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