NRA, fighting gun laws, calls for Nutter's arrest
Philadelphia Inquirer, The, April, 2008 by Joseph A. Slobodzian Inquirer Staff Writer
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Philadelphia's latest effort to curb violence through gun control was temporarily blocked by a city judge yesterday in a ruling that both sides welcomed, and that left a National Rifle Association lawyer calling for Mayor Nutter's arrest for "official oppression." Common Pleas Court Judge Jane Cutler Greenspan granted the NRA a temporary restraining order that blocks enforcement of a package of five gun-control laws passed last week by City Council and signed by Nutter.
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Greenspan stressed that she was "just trying to preserve the status quo" until an April 28 hearing on whether to issue a preliminary injunction freezing the laws longer. She ordered both sides to submit briefs outlining their positions and the legal precedents behind them by 5 p.m. Monday. After yesterday's 45-minute hearing, C. Scott Shields, the Media lawyer who filed the lawsuit for the NRA, fulminated for several minutes, telling reporters that Mayor Nutter and City ...
