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Obama Protects Firearm Dealers Against Police Gun Trafficking Probes
25 June 2009
Washington Independent
Earlier this year, as the violence on the Mexican border had crescendoed into national headlines, the state of California contacted federal firearms officials with a seemingly innocuous request: Would the federal government lend state law enforcers details on the thousands of crime guns seized in Mexico and traced to California — information that might identify patterns of trafficking worth investigation?
Citing a five-year-old federal law that limits the sharing of... (GunPolicy.org)