Gag on 2nd Amendment Is City’s Aim in Guns Suit

By JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN , Staff Reporter of the Sun | May 9, 2008

Lawyers for Mayor Bloomberg are asking a judge to ban any reference to the Second Amendment during the upcoming trial of a gun shop owner who was sued by the city. While trials are often tightly choreographed, with lawyers routinely instructed to not tell certain facts to a jury, a gag order on a section of the Constitution would be an oddity.

“Apparently Mayor Bloomberg has a problem with both the First and the Second amendments,â€