Joining the Gun Battle
Tags: GUN control; PAWNBROKERS
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- Troubled times bringing princes to pawns. Ash, Leonard D. // San Diego Business Journal;9/26/94, Vol. 15 Issue 39, p18A
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- L.V. pawn shops ambassadors to tourists, resources to locals. Baker, Chuck N. // Las Vegas Business Press;03/24/97, Vol. 14 Issue 12, p24
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- Business for sale--Nevada pawnshop. Fraser, Jill Andresky // Inc.;Apr96, Vol. 18 Issue 5, p140
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- The New Pawn Shop. Erhlich, John // Psychology Today;May/Jun99, Vol. 32 Issue 3, p15
Looks at the improvement of the services of pawnshops in the United States. Statistics on the ethnic use of pawnshop; Interest rate pawnshops charge to their clients.
- Observations. Barker, Paul // New Statesman;01/24/97, Vol. 126 Issue 4318, p54
Makes observations about the pawnbroker. Pawnbrokers in Great Britain; History of the trade; Difference with the new-style `sale-and-buy-back' traders; Becoming a financial house.
- New devices let frisks go undercover. Milstone, Erik // ABA Journal;Aug96, Vol. 82 Issue 8, p32
Reports on the development of technology that would detect guns hidden beneath clothing. Criticisms against scanners; Comments of defense lawyer John Henry Hingson; Federal spending for research into detectors.
- Ottawa misses the target, again. Gunter, Lorne // Alberta Report / Newsmagazine;4/4/94, Vol. 21 Issue 16, p19
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