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Weak Laws Make South Carolina Prime Source of Crime Gun Trafficking
7 August 2009
Post and Courier (South Carolina)
South Carolina is one of America's weakest gun-law states fueling the "iron pipeline" of weapons elsewhere, the anti-gun violence Brady Center said Wednesday.
Using federal data on the origins of guns recovered nationally in 2008, the Brady group said dealers in states with so-called "weak" gun laws supplied out-of-state guns at more than five times the rate that dealers in the states with "stronger" gun laws did.
The results indicate South Carolina is not shedding... (GunPolicy.org)