For five years Smyrna gun shop owner Jay Wallace has been the target of a lawsuit by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
But that isn't stopping Wallace from opening a $5 million, 70,000-square-foot sporting goods store on South Cobb Drive in August complete with a 17-lane shooting range with computer operated targets, a cafe and a mezzanine that will seat more than 600 for NRA events, and the like.
In 2006, Mayor Bloomberg filed suit against Wallace and several other gun shops around the country, claiming they had made illegal sales of firearms that ended up on the streets of New York. Wallace disputes his employees did anything wrong.
In fact, of the cafe, he said: "We're thinking about calling it the Bloomberg Cafe. We don't want people to lose sight of what can happen when you have a bully with endless amounts of his own money, with endless amounts of money that he doesn't mind spending of the taxpayers of New York, throwing it around for his own agenda. We want to keep people reminded of what has happened."
Wallace's attorney, former Congressman Bob Barr, called the lawsuit an "arrogant crusade against firearms retailers."
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The article is actually dated, the shop has completed the expansion and is doing great. Wallace still has the defamation lawsuit against bloomberg awaiting adjudication.
ReplyDeleteHope he wins it all.
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