Second Amendment Foundation
From: SAF Alerts
NEWS RELEASE
'BODYGUARD BUST' PROVES MICHAEL MOORE IS LESS THAN HONEST ABOUT
GUN LAWS
The arrest of a man identified by Fox News as a bodyguard for
anti-gun film director Michael Moore by New York Port Authority Police
Wednesday evening proves that Moore is an elitist who thinks it is fine
for him to have armed security, while he has endeavored to disarm other
law-abiding Americans, the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) said
today.
Adding to the irony, said SAF Founder Alan M. Gottlieb, is the
fact that bodyguard Patrick Burke was arrested for violating the kind
of Draconian gun law that Moore and his extremist gun control
contemporaries would support. Burke was reportedly arrested at JFK
International Airport when he declared his firearm at the ticket
counter, as required by law when traveling.
New York authorities habitually arrest private citizens at
airports around the state when they declare firearms as required by
law, and do not have a New York firearms license. It is a technicality
that has tripped up many travelers who may simply be going through the
state on their way to or from other destinations.
"Michael Moore is a world-class hypocrite for campaigning against
the gun rights of law-abid ing citizens, while having an armed
bodyguard," Gottlieb observed. "Unfortunately for Mr. Burke, who is
reportedly licensed to carry a firearm in Florida and California, he
has been tripped up by the same anti-gun mentality espoused by his
elitist employer. Sadly, if criminal charges are pursued, it will be
Mr. Burke, not his boss, who takes the fall, possibly losing his gun
rights in the process, because possession of an unlicensed gun in New
York is a felony.
"Like so many other arrogant Hollywood anti-gunners, Michael Moore
obviously considers his life more important than the lives of all the
people he would disarm," Gottlieb stated. "His malevolence toward the
rights of gun owners only adds to the hypocrisy of this case.
"Naturally," Gottlieb concluded, "we would be delighted to
recommend a suitable lawyer from the SAF attorney referral list to
represent Mr. Burke. And we're certain Malevolent Michael will happily
pick up the tab."
The Second Amendm ent Foundation is the nation's oldest and
largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action
group focusing on the Constitutional right and heritage to privately
own and possess firearms. Founded in 1974, The Foundation has grown to
more than 600,000 members and supporters and conducts many programs
designed to better inform the public about the consequences of gun
control. SAF has previously funded successful firearms-related suits
against the cities of Los Angeles; New Haven, CT; and San Francisco on
behalf of American gun owners, a lawsuit against the cities suing gun
makers & an amicus brief & fund for the Emerson case holding the Second
Amendment as an individual right.
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Clint.
PHATBOY
