Word: federales
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A President's first weeks in office are remembered more for symbolism than for lasting achievements. Jimmy Carter turned the White House thermostat down to 65 degrees F. Ronald Reagan slapped a freeze on federal hiring. For Bush, the goal was to let Americans know that the new President, unlike...
The term gunrunning brings to mind images of swift boats landing rifles on shadowy and foreign shores. But the gunrunning that plagues the U.S. these days is more a matter of illicit firearms stashed in vehicles rolling boldly up interstate highways. Federal law strictly limits the resale of weapons. However...
"With the huge profits to be made, gunrunners are flooding the market," laments federal firearms agent Phil Chojnacki in Houston. "You take off one group, and another springs up." In fact, the markup on black-market firearms is not bad. A .357-cal. magnum that sells for $250 in a...
That kind of ID is easily forged by out-of-state buyers. "People come into a gun shop with a Virginia driver's license, and the ink is barely dry," laments George N. Metcalf, Assistant U.S. Attorney in Richmond. "They buy half a dozen guns with cash, get into a...
Stopping this clandestine trade is almost impossible for agents of the Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. The weapons are transported by car or truck, aboard trains or stashed in the cargo hold of interstate buses and planes. Federal agents even uncovered one shipment sent by United...