(Video) Mayor Bloomberg Gets Confrontational with WPIX Reporter Mary Murphy

Mayor Bloomberg has been using his City Hall podium as a national pulpit for gun control. But when WPIX reporter Mary Murphy had the opportunity to question Bloomberg about the shell casing controversy, he took a different tack.

At issue, the June sale of 28-thousand pounds of spent shell casings from the NYPD firing range in the Bronx to an ammunition dealer in Georgia.

Murphy threw some questions at Bloomberg at an event yesterday. When the highly competent Murphy seemed to get the “run-around,” she pressed Bloomberg on the City’s shell casing policy, causing an all-too-familiar, irritated scene.

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