New York, NY – Two of the five Virginia dealers still fighting New York City — Old Dominion Guns & Tackle, in Danville, and Webb’s Sporting Goods, in Madison Heights – are having their defense bills paid by their insurance companies.
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“I’ll expect this thing will go on a couple years before it’s over,” owner Harold “Webb” Babcock tells CBS News. “We’re going to be there until the end.”
One sued vendor, Patriot Services Inc., simply surrendered its federal firearms license and re-launched with a new license as Virginia Firearms & Transfers, Inc. at the same Richmond address. Owner Jim Jarrett tells CBS News he runs the business out of his garage. “I wouldn’t want to operate a company under a lawsuit,” he says.
Bob Moates, owner of a Midlothian, VA gun shop fighting the New York suit, says his legal bills so for amount to only $11,000. “I’m concerned. This could go on for years,” said Moates. “It’s money that could be spent for a better purpose.”
one of the seven sued Virginia dealers, Franklin Rod & Gun Shop, in Rocky Mount, appears to have gone out of business. Owner Dan Heckman liquidated his stock and surrendered his license.
Two Virginia dealers have settled with New York City: Cole’s Gun Shop, in Danville, and Town and Country pawn shop, in Roanoke. That requires them to submit to inventory inspections and sales monitoring by a court-appointed “special master” to ensure they comply with gun control laws or be fined if they don’t. [cbs news]
