Word: northern
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...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, that has not stanched a flood of firepower that travels from Southern states, where guns are quickly and easily bought, to Northern ones, where sales are more tightly regulated. Firearms bought in gun shops in Florida, Texas and Virginia -- the three largest supply states -- fetch top dollar when sold on the black market to drug dealers, street gangs and assorted thugs in Washington and New York City...
...springs up." In fact, the markup on black-market firearms is not bad. A .357-cal. magnum that sells for $250 in a Dallas gun shop will bring $700 on the streets of New York. Just $300 will buy a semiautomatic in Florida, which can be sold at the Northern end of the pipeline for $1,000 or more...
...trade a nice side business. In the past two years Jamaican drug gangs, known as "posses," that run the crack houses in Dallas have moved some 1,200 Southern firearms to other drug dealers in the North. Enterprising dope shippers can even arrange a "package deal" for their wealthy Northern buyers: a stolen luxury car that has drugs hidden in the door panels, with a cache of arms thrown...
...driving force behind domestic arms smuggling is the discrepancy among state laws. Northern states such as New York and Massachusetts have waiting periods of several weeks on gun purchases. That gives authorities time to check buyers for a criminal record and makes it harder for miscreants to get weapons. Not so in Texas or many parts of the South, such as Florida, South Carolina and Virginia, where customers need only show a driver's license or other form of identification that certifies them as state residents...
...North Koreans expressed little interest in a summit but suggested that the Prime Ministers hold talks on such long-standing Northern demands as the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the Korean peninsula. The Roh government would have preferred to start discussions on less contentious topics, but went along with the Pyongyang proposal. Said Roh: "There are changes in the North that cannot be easily seen. I think we will have a summit meeting in the not too distant future...