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Search results for "weapons dealer" ...
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The Hidden Life of Guns
The investigation details the way guns move through society, from retail sales to street crimes. The Post set out to break the secrecy imposed by Congress and an examination of how gunes are used in crimes. Their investigation included creating a database of more than 35,000 guns traced to crimes; a comprehensive database of 511 police officers killed by firearms; lists from confidential sources of the top 12 gun dealers who have sold the most weapons trace from Mexican crime scenes over the past two years.
Tags: guns; gun laws; crime; gun dealer; illegal gun trade; Mexico; criminal statistics; Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; National Shooting Sports Foundation; Tiahrt Amendment;
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Gripen- The Secret Deals
SVT investigated the selling of the Swedish fighter plane, the Gripen to the Czech government. In result the news organization uncovered bribery of politicians, the Austrian Count Alfons Mensdorff-Pouilly, a former Canadian government minister and a Czech weapons dealer. This prompted further investigation into two other Gripen deals between Hungary and South Africa.
Tags: Gripen; fighter planes; weapons; air force; Czech; SAAB; BAE; undercover reporting; hidden camera; Hungary; South Africa; arms dealer; weapons dealer
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The Damage Done
This series follows the illegal purchase of 250 hand guns, their transport across state lines, and their sale on the streets of Buffalo to "doped-up teenagers, petty thieves and hard-core drug dealers." One gun runner accomplished this feat. The series also tellswhere and how the weapons are manufactured, how they are sold and some of the double-standards of the industry. The writers also tell the stories of some of the victims of shootings using the 250 handguns.
Tags: gun control; NRA; gun shows; dealers; federal gun control act
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Errant gun dealer, wary agents paved way for Beltway sniper tragedy
This story deals with the gun dealer that supplied John Muhammad, and Lee Boyd Malvo with the military weapon used in the sniper shootings. Law enforcement sources say Lee Boyd Malvo told investigators he shoplifted the gun from the Bulls Eye firing range. The store has no sales record, and can't produce records for scores of other missing guns. Bull's Eye's negligent operation and the government's timid enforcement of errant gun dealers contributed to the tragedy according to released documents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and numerous interviews with current and former agency employees .
Tags: sniper; Bull's Eye's firing range; Lee Boyd Malvo; John Muhammad; Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms; gun supplier; ATF; ATF National Tracing Center; Bulls Eye Shooter Supply; Pacific Shooters Supply; 1968 Gun Control Act; Federal Firearms License; National Rifle Association
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Police Recycle Guns
This story reports that police departments sell their older weapons for new ones and that some of these discarded weapons land up with criminals. As these reporters found out more than 100 New Jersey guns were linked to crimes between 1985 and 2000. Gun dealers often gave the police department a cheap deal especially for older weapons having high-capacity magazines.
Tags: guns; shooting crimes; New Jersey Police Department; New Jersey gun laws; sale of police weapons
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David Kairys Takes Aim
Civil rights attorney David Kairys came up with a novel way to sue gun manufacturers. In a Temple Law Review article, Kairys advocated treating guns as like a public nuisance, much like a "noisy bar" or "crack houses." Kairys is particularly interested in suing the makers of handguns, such as Beretta, Bryco, Colt, Glock and Smith & Wesson. He's had a hard time beating the gun lobby in Pennsylvania, which has the second-largest NRA membership in the nation, and more Pennsylvanians "have permits to carry concealed weapons than in any other state..." According to the ATF, slightly more than 1 percent of the dealers fed more than half the criminal market."
Tags: guns; handguns; legal; lawsuit; NRA; civic lawsuit; nuisance; establishment
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Licensed to kill
This article delves into the world of weapon dealers and arm sales, where, Silverstein writes, they "operate within a maze of front companies, aliases, and Swiss bank accounts." Told through an account of an arms dealer in Virginia, who reportedly had a major role in almost every U.S. operation against Communisim, this story is "a virtual how-to guide for covert operations...(and) reveals the relationship between governments and black-market arms dealers, and affords us new insight into American foreign policy since World War II."
Tags: weapon dealers; arm sales; U.S. foreign policy; CIA; U.S. intelligence; black market
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Into thin air
This story highlights the problem of gun dealers selling weapons to people who use identification cards from someone else. This type of transaction, called straw sales, were recorded on camera by the Chicago police department, the Journal reports, but the lack of straw-sales prohibitions on federal and state levels allowed Chicago gun dealers to get away with it.
Tags: guns; gun laws; gun control; straw sales; weapons; firearms
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Gun Dealers with Badges
KCAL 9 reports "the secret practice of state agencies of California selling assault weapons and other firearms. In part one... the California Department of Corrections was held accountable for the first time ever for selling firearms that ended up on the streets. These included assault weapons, some of which have been banned in the state for over 10 years, along with thousands of other weapons. In part two,the California Highway Patrol's practice of selling over 4000 high-quality handguns and other weapons was also exposed..."
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Law Enforcement Weapons Sales
CBS News 'ongoing investigation looked at the policies of major police and sheriff's departments across the country when it came to sales or trades of old service weapons. Using the Freedom of Information Act, and various state Public Records Acts, we collected documents and databases from more than thirty major cities and counties in the United States. Our investigation found that some of America's biggest law enforcement agencies are also some of the biggest arms dealers...."
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