"Second Amendment rights? Boolsheet! . . . We comin’ after ‘em; we are a
bad dream for the gun industry."
--Trial attorney Wendell Gauthier
The Weekly Standard, Feb. 1, 1999
"If the Court of Appeals disagrees with me or somebody else disagrees
with my rulings, it doesn't bother me. After almost 33 years, I don’t
feel I have to justify myself to anybody but myself."
-- Judge Jack
Weinstein after the Hamilton v. Accu-Tek trial's end.
New York Magazine, April 5, 1999
"You don’t need a legislative majority to file a lawsuit."
-- Trial
attorney Elisa Barnes
Wall Street Journal, Oct. 21, 1999
"[I]t is imperative to steer the argument about guns away from the
problematic area of criminal use, with its inconvenient focus on
criminals. . . ."
--Reporter Peter Boyer describing the belief of Brady
Campaign attorney Dennis Henigan
The New Yorker, May 17, 1999
"The legal fees alone are enough to bankrupt the industry. The pressure
is going to be on."
--Trial attorney John Coale
Washington Post, March 18, 2000
"You just stir things up. I mean look, the gun issue’s all over the
place now. . . . We got bills flying all over Congress. . . .
Eventually, the industry has to see us as the only reasonable people in
town. It ain’t going to be reasonable up on that Hill. And we are
reasonable (ha-ha-ha). That’s what it comes down to."
--Trial attorney
John Coale
Washington Post, March 18, 2000
"We have the capacity to squeeze manufacturers like a pincer and hurt
them in the marketplace."
--New York Attorney General Elliot Spitzer
Dayton Daily News, March 30, 2000
"Fed up with trying to move legislation, the [Clinton] White House is
launching lawsuits to succeed where legislation failed. The strategy may
work, but at the cost of making our frail democracy even weaker. . . .
This is faux legislation which sacrifices democracy to the discretion of
administration officials operating in secrecy"
--Robert Reich, former
Clinton Administration Secretary of Labor
American Prospect, Jan. 17, 2002
Posted: 3/1/2005
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