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Hands that hand a gun to a killer

November 2nd, 2009 by Philadelphia Daily News Filed under Featured, Feeds, Free Republic, Politics.[0 views]
THERESA JONES had a drug problem and an empty wallet. In 2003, when a neighbor offered her $75 to buy him a gun, she readily agreed, even though the man had a criminal record and couldn't legally buy or possess a gun. After the sale, the neighbor carried off his new Ruger 9 mm pistol. Jones never saw it again. --snip-- Thugs recruit acquaintances with clean records to buy them guns, and women are a growing target. Blinded by love or fueled by financial need, women represent a quarter of about 350 straw buyers arrested in Philadelphia since a multiagency...

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