Court to hear gun case

NEW YORK - More than a dozen out-of-state gun dealers have helped criminals terrorize New Yorkers and now the sellers must face the city in court, a judge ruled Wednesday.

U.S. District Judge Jack Weinstein ruled against the shops, which had argued they couldn't be sued in a New York court because they do not do business in the city.

But the judge said the city had demonstrated “with a high degree of probability” that the shops' behavior has been “responsible for the funneling into New York of large quantities of handguns used by local criminals to terrorize significant portions of the city's population.”