The New York Times
Early
one October morning in 2011, two masked men with gloved hands smashed
their way into a roadside pawnshop in rural Georgia, fleeing with 23
handguns.
Four
years later, on a street in Queens on Saturday, a man raised one of
those guns — a silver, five-shot Taurus revolver — and fired three times
at New York police officers. A bullet struck Officer Brian Moore in the face; he died on Monday.
His
death followed the killing of two officers in December in Brooklyn.
That time, the handgun turned on officers also came from a gun shop a
thousand miles away from the city, just 90 miles away in the same
Southern state.
Law
enforcement officials have long focused on Georgia and neighboring
states with looser gun laws as the starting point of a so-called iron
pipeline of guns flowing north, to New York and other cities, where the
restrictions on legal gun purchases are more stringent — and the profits
higher for traffickers.
So the supposedly looser gun laws in Georgia enabled criminals to break into a gun store and then sell their ill gotten loot in New York, and used in criminal activity there. The article somehow neglects to mention exactly which law it is that condones burglary in Georgia.
ReplyDeleteThe other gun mentioned was actually purchased eighteen years ago so linking it to this "pipeline" as a route supplying criminals in the gun control nirvana of NYC is a bit harder to sell.
Maybe we should call it "The Iron Snail Trail" since it takes 14 years to get there.
ReplyDelete