May 16, 2008
Gun lobby coddles felonious dealers
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Philip F. Lee of Maryland Citizens for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms defends rogue gun dealer Sanford Abrams ("Store was source of few city guns," letters, April 18).
Mr. Abrams ran the Valley Gun Shop, which was cited for more than 900 federal gun law violations. He sold hundreds of firearms traced to crime, ranking in the top 1 percent of gun dealers in total crime guns traced to his store.
Despite this record, the National Rifle Association granted Mr. Abrams a seat on its board of directors and even provided legal counsel for Mr. Abrams to sue the federal government to prevent revocation of his gun dealer license.
Weak gun laws allowed Mr. Abrams to stay in business for nearly a decade while arming hundreds of criminals.
Even after his license was revoked, Mr. Abrams kept selling guns. He pleaded guilty this year to illegally arming a criminal who shot at police with an assault weapon.
It is time for the gun lobby to stop coddling criminals.
We need strong gun laws to protect our communities and our families, not tired excuses from the gun lobby defending its lawbreaking friends.
Daniel R. Vice
Washington
The writer is a senior attorney for the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
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