Just for Mayors

The National Shooting Sports Foundation, a trade group for the firearms industry, wrote to Mayor Bloomberg yesterday asking that it be allowed to participate in his Guns Control Summit today at Gracie Mansion.

In a news release sent out yesterday afternoon, the foundation said it would "welcome the opportunity" to educate the 15 mayors from around the country who are scheduled to be at Mr. Bloomberg's summit about its crime reduction programs.

The overture did not fly with Mr. Bloomberg's office. The summit of mayors "is for Mayors," Mr. Bloomberg's chief spokesman, Stuart Loeser, said in an e-mail.