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New York Police Sting Nets 5 Interstate Gun Traffickers, 40 Crime Guns
24 September 2008
NY1 News (New York
Police have arrested five gun trafficking suspects in Brooklyn and Queens.
Officials say undercover officers bought nearly 40 weapons from them, including assault rifles, sawed-off shotguns, semi-automatic handguns and revolvers, most of which originated out-of-state.
Police said one of the recovered weapons was used in a nightclub shooting in Queens, although there's no evidence any of the suspects were connected to it.
In a Wednesday press conference in Manhattan's... (GunPolicy.org)