A Georgia gun dealer said he smelled a legal ambush at Brooklyn federal court on June 2 and decided to default on a lawsuit by New York City that alleged his company improperly allowed guns to get into the hands of criminals.
Jay Wallace, 51, owner of Adventure Outdoors, a Smyrna, GA, sporting goods store that was one of 27 targeted by Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s illegal gun campaign, said he will now take the case to appeals court since he didn’t think he could get a fair trial before Judge Jack B. Weinstein.
“This court has already made up its mind,” said Wallace in a news conference outside the courthouse, according to Newsday.
Wallace’s lawyer, John Renzulli, of White Plains, NY, said the federal appeals court will get to decide whether Weinstein has jurisdiction over the case.
“There was no chance for a fair trial here,” said Renzulli, looking back over the history of the gun case.