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- In opening statements, an NRA lawyer defended the gun lobby against NY's massive corruption case.
- "One night walking home, I was attacked by two men in the dark," on a NY street, she told jurors.
- "It's your choice in America," she said of "the right to own a firearm," prompting objections.
The case is about corruption, not gun rights, jurors in New York's NRA civil trial have been instructed by the judge — but that didn't stop a lawyer for the gun lobby from dropping some pretty blatant Second Amendment-rights propaganda into her opening statements Tuesday.
"I never owned a gun," NRA lawyer Sarah B. Rogers told six jurors and six alternates Tuesday in a Manhattan courtroom, as she neared the end of her openings.
"I never thought I needed one," she told them.