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typical CBS bovine excrement!
what CBS really wants to say is that they do not like Puerto Ricans having guns
http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_077132514.html
Fla.'s Rules Help Puerto Rico's Illegal Gun Market
(CBS4) ORLANDO Lenient rules on the purchase and transportation of guns in Florida are subverting stricter gun laws in Puerto Rico.
According to the U.S.Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fireams and Explosives about 60 percent of the guns seized in Puerto Rico in the last decade came from Florida. Police in Puerto Rico say these illegal guns can be linked to more than 7 thousand murders in the last 10 years.
A key concern for law enforcement officials are airline regulations that make it tougher to transport a dog to Puerto Rico than a suitcase full of handguns, rifles and ammunition. While dogs require paperwork, fees and certification, gun owners generally need only to tell airlines the unloaded guns are packed in a secure container in checked baggage.
“Once in Puerto Rico, the guns often stay, a violation of the territory's strict gun control laws,” said Puerto Rican Police Superintendent Pedro Toledo.
The arrest of several Orlando airline employees earlier this month who were charged with attempting to smuggle guns to Puerto Rico is just a small facet of the problem. Law enforcement officials say guns are frequently bought legally on the mainland and flown to Puerto Rico in airline luggage, then disappear into the black market.
"They usually have been pre-ordered," said Marcial Orlando Felix, an ATF agent stationed in Puerto Rico. "There's a buyer awaiting them."
Orlando is a key focus of concern because it is relatively easy to buy guns in Florida and Orlando is a hub for about 34-hundred of the 5-thousand flights from Florida to Puerto Rico each year.
"What usually happens is, someone travels from Puerto Rico to Florida to buy guns at a gun show. They go to Orlando because they have buddies there that can put them up and it is a short, inexpensive flight," Felix said. "That person makes a couple of trips and realizes this is easy. So he recruits two or three of his buddies in Orlando to do the same."
Felix and Toledo are lobbying for tougher rules that require airlines to notify them of passengers bringing guns into Puerto Rico.
"I'd have my agents check that that person is authorized to have those weapons," Toledo said. "If they are not, we'd hold the weapons for the length of that person's stay."
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what CBS really wants to say is that they do not like Puerto Ricans having guns
http://cbs4.com/topstories/local_story_077132514.html
Fla.'s Rules Help Puerto Rico's Illegal Gun Market
(CBS4) ORLANDO Lenient rules on the purchase and transportation of guns in Florida are subverting stricter gun laws in Puerto Rico.
According to the U.S.Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fireams and Explosives about 60 percent of the guns seized in Puerto Rico in the last decade came from Florida. Police in Puerto Rico say these illegal guns can be linked to more than 7 thousand murders in the last 10 years.
A key concern for law enforcement officials are airline regulations that make it tougher to transport a dog to Puerto Rico than a suitcase full of handguns, rifles and ammunition. While dogs require paperwork, fees and certification, gun owners generally need only to tell airlines the unloaded guns are packed in a secure container in checked baggage.
“Once in Puerto Rico, the guns often stay, a violation of the territory's strict gun control laws,” said Puerto Rican Police Superintendent Pedro Toledo.
The arrest of several Orlando airline employees earlier this month who were charged with attempting to smuggle guns to Puerto Rico is just a small facet of the problem. Law enforcement officials say guns are frequently bought legally on the mainland and flown to Puerto Rico in airline luggage, then disappear into the black market.
"They usually have been pre-ordered," said Marcial Orlando Felix, an ATF agent stationed in Puerto Rico. "There's a buyer awaiting them."
Orlando is a key focus of concern because it is relatively easy to buy guns in Florida and Orlando is a hub for about 34-hundred of the 5-thousand flights from Florida to Puerto Rico each year.
"What usually happens is, someone travels from Puerto Rico to Florida to buy guns at a gun show. They go to Orlando because they have buddies there that can put them up and it is a short, inexpensive flight," Felix said. "That person makes a couple of trips and realizes this is easy. So he recruits two or three of his buddies in Orlando to do the same."
Felix and Toledo are lobbying for tougher rules that require airlines to notify them of passengers bringing guns into Puerto Rico.
"I'd have my agents check that that person is authorized to have those weapons," Toledo said. "If they are not, we'd hold the weapons for the length of that person's stay."
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