Gun Policy News
Congress Must Face Problem of US Gun Dealers Providing Crime Guns
5 November 2010
Virginian-Pilot (Virginia), Editorial
There's one type of traffic that flows too smoothly in our region - guns, en route to criminals.
Forty gun dealers, or just 1 percent of 3,400 licensed sellers in Virginia, were the sources of roughly 60 percent of the guns seized by authorities in criminal investigations in the commonwealth since 1998, according to a Washington Post investigation.
Among those 40 dealers were shops in communities throughout South Hampton Roads and the Peninsula.
One dealer, D&R Arms... (GunPolicy.org)