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Gun seller: 'I can't do it anymore'
ABC News ^ | 12-17-2012 | Chris Trenkmann

Posted on 12/30/2012 4:15:30 AM PST by algernon_garnock

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To: driftdiver

> Does he sell knives?

Does he buy stolen jewelry?

BINGO. If you knew how many times police officers / detectives have been lied to by pawn shop owners about whether they have stolen property in their possession you’d be amazed. I remember working a case many moons ago where there was a homeowner who had several items stolen from their home, a digital camera that the owner had the serial number of. I already knew where the item would be fenced because it was well know that this one particular pawn shop was where they went (I know, DUH). I had made friends with one of the “honest” employees there so I called him up and asked hi if he had said digital camera in his inventory and he said yeah they had just received it a few days before (actually I had already ID’d the guy; I had a good idea who it was after questioning the homeowner) so I go down there and talk to the pawnshop manager; he says no they don’t have it. I tell him I have it on good authority that the item is in his store and he gets nervous and rednecks and lo and behold there it is! I talked to the “honest” employee later and he told me the manager was pissed because he had to hand over the goods.

Now you know why I don’t trust pawnshop owners. They’re in a dirty business and buying stolen goods is their opportunity to buy items very cheap and turn them over for a big profit. Hell one of the ways they price their items is that they call up the store the item was bought from or the local Walmart and the post the full retail price of the item! Learned that from talking to several pawn shop employees. The reason I don’t buy anything from ‘em as well.


21 posted on 12/30/2012 5:02:27 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: algernon_garnock

Frank, Chicago’s reached 500th homicide milestone, under strict gun law. Strong minded gangsters can do it more.


22 posted on 12/30/2012 5:06:33 AM PST by granada
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To: jsanders2001

Your story is what this guy is really a crybaby about. He is fencing stolen property and his conscience is bugging him. It isn’t about the guns or he would be sawing off barrells and hammering the crap out of them till they aren’t usable. Yeah, go cry in the corner with the weak ones, the men will handle it.


23 posted on 12/30/2012 5:09:55 AM PST by healy61
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To: Cvengr; shibumi

Even my lifetime NRA member dad thinks we ‘don’t need guns with that many bullets’ anymore.

He asked why we needed 60 cap mags and I said for the people who have 30 cap mags and are gonna kick in your door one day.

[this is the same guy who spent 51 years teaching me to defend me and my own at all costs?!?]

Formerly tough people are getting soft and gutless.

The MSM brain washers are succeeding.


24 posted on 12/30/2012 5:11:29 AM PST by Salamander (Never go to bed mad. Stay up all night plotting revenge.)
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To: ez

” go huddle in the corner with the rest of the women, we got this.”

HEY!


25 posted on 12/30/2012 5:14:34 AM PST by Salamander (I wear my sunglasses at night.)
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To: Lockbar

“How much anybody wants to bet within 2 years somebody walks into the store, cleans out the register, and puts a .45 slug into his head. What a complete moron.”

I’m sure he’ll still have one, he just thinks *you’re* too stupid to have one.


26 posted on 12/30/2012 5:18:58 AM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: Salamander
The MSM brain washers are succeeding.

Carefully crafted misleading statements are effective.

I saw Geraldo Rivera do it last week when he said that pistols need to be reloaded but with "high capacity automatic assault rifles" they spray till the clip is empty then slap in another clip and spray some more.

He and everyone around him knew he was lying but it fit the agenda.
27 posted on 12/30/2012 5:24:39 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: algernon_garnock

B as in B and S as in S.

The fortunes of pawn shops around here are booming precisely BECAUSE of the lousy economy and people’s fear (or realization of reality). Suppose Mr. Frank James (hmm, sounds familiar) really is broken up ove his naughtiness in selling legal holders legal arms. Well then, stop his knife sales. DItto that for sports equipment like baseball bats. Oh, hey, what about buying items from all the junkies? No conscience there? Couldn’t live with himself? Oh please . . .

My guess is that this business (which has human misery in its business plan) sees the handwriting on the wall and is liquidating unsaleable merchandise ahead of his competitors. His call for gun control rings as phony as his over-the-counter compassion for people in need that sell the fragments of their lives for a pittance. If he really believed in gun control, he’d also advocate the kind of misguided policies that would ruin the country and create only more misery.

Hmmm, maybe he really does believe that.


28 posted on 12/30/2012 5:25:55 AM PST by WorkingClassFilth (we)
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To: algernon_garnock

The next time a drunk driver kills someone in their Nissan, he should sell his/s


29 posted on 12/30/2012 5:29:42 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Read SCOTUS Castle Rock vs Gonzales before dialing 911!)
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To: jsanders2001
As reported by ABC, the only news media sydnicate that has an office in the WH...

NBC is even MORE government-run than ABC.

Only CBS occasionally drifts from the official White House narrative, when they issued a handful of reports on Fast and Furious.

30 posted on 12/30/2012 5:29:45 AM PST by Lazamataz (LAZ'S LAW: As an argument with liberals goes on, the probability of being called racist approaches 1)
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To: jsanders2001

Kinda like when Obama had all those doctors in white coats at the White House who loved ObamaCare.


31 posted on 12/30/2012 5:30:06 AM PST by Obadiah (Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.)
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To: cripplecreek

Wow.

Where does the other ‘clip’ go when you slap in the next one?

[I can drop and reload my Beretta 9 faster than the AR. what’s his point?]

“Spray”.

As if.


32 posted on 12/30/2012 5:31:29 AM PST by Salamander (I wear my sunglasses at night.)
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To: umgud
That approach is so successful, the military is deploying it in the fight against Islamic terrorism:


33 posted on 12/30/2012 5:34:14 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Salamander

Another one of my favorite anti constitutional lies is the ever popular “You can’t use these semi automatic rifles for hunting”.

The old .22 semi auto I used to have was the ideal squirrel gun. Very quiet and held either 16 long or 18 short rounds.


34 posted on 12/30/2012 5:36:54 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: Salamander
Next time your Dad says something like that, tell him that you need a lot of bullets in your rifle because "A rifle without bullets is just a stick."
35 posted on 12/30/2012 5:37:14 AM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: algernon_garnock

Safe?
In a GUN-FREE school????

Yagottabekiddingme.


36 posted on 12/30/2012 5:38:00 AM PST by Flintlock (PARANOIA--means having all the facts.)
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To: algernon_garnock

He must live in a BRAIN FREE ZONE...


37 posted on 12/30/2012 5:39:04 AM PST by baddog 219
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To: Salamander

Even my lifetime NRA member dad thinks we ‘don’t need guns with that many bullets’ anymore.

Don’t you love NRA think?

That is the last organization I would be tempted to give money too for ostensibly protecting my second amendment rights.

They have been in existence for the passage of every single “shall not be infringed” gun bill infringing on the second amendment, since NFA 1934.

Four million Americans supporting financially the very organization dependent on government coming for our guns. If the infringing ever stops NRA is out of business, when they should be out of business based on RESULTS!


38 posted on 12/30/2012 5:39:24 AM PST by wita
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To: cripplecreek

Yep.


39 posted on 12/30/2012 5:42:30 AM PST by Salamander (I wear my sunglasses at night.)
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To: shibumi

I ain’t sayin’ squat.

When he goes, I get his guns.

Until then, he can talk to my mom about those scary bang sticks.


40 posted on 12/30/2012 5:44:15 AM PST by Salamander (I wear my sunglasses at night.)
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