alohachris
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Another Washington Post Anti Hatchet Job...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/23/AR2010102302994.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/23/AR2010102302994.html
Realco guns tied to 2,500 crimes in D.C. and Maryland
Realco has been known as a leading seller of "crime guns" seized by local police, but a year-long Post investigation reveals the magnitude of Realco's pattern and links the guns sold by the store to specific crimes. The Post compiled its own databases of more than 35,000 gun traces by mining unpublicized state databases and local police evidence logs.
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which investigates gun trafficking and regulates the firearms industry, is hamstrung by the law, politics and bureaucracy.
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