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Mayor Michael Bloomberg may have risen to become the country's chief critic of lax firearm laws, but on his weekly radio show, he argued that has nothing to do with the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Indeed, Mr. Bloomberg claimed to be the strongest defender of the Second Amendment around.

"I don't think there's anybody that's defended the Second Amendment as much as I have, Ray," Mr. Bloomberg said to a caller who asked him why he was "so against" the constitutional passage . "I think you have a perfect right to buy weapons and keep them for protection or for sport. We have tried to make sure that you have it. The Supreme Court says that there are--consistent with the Second Amendment--you can have reasonable restrictions, so, for example, you can't buy a nuclear-tipped weapon."

The mayor also offered some possible interpretations of the Second Amendment that differ from those espoused by gun rights advocates.

"I don't think anyone should try to tamper with the Second Amendment," Mr. Bloomberg explained. "There is a question as to what [in] the Second Amendment was written. You can read it to say they only talked about militias, or you can read it to say they wanted guns in your pocket. I don't know, that's up to you."