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A Gun Shop Sting, a World of Trouble
1 January 1998
Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St Paul)
Neighbors around Mark Koscielski's gun store in south Minneapolis long had worried that some of the firearms sold there legally might end up in the hands of criminals.
They didn't know the half of it.
Dozens of cheap handguns traced to Koscielski's Government Surplus and to four suburban gun stores have turned up in crack house raids, shootings, traffic stops and felony arrests, some of them involving juveniles.
But what residents didn't know — and what top city... (GunPolicy.org)