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Councilman Tries To Bar Pawn Shops From Selling Guns


Though earlier opinions from the Mississippi attorney general's office refuted a municipality's ability to regulate gun sales, Jackson, Miss., City Councilman Kenneth Stokes wants to repeal an ordinance allowing pawn shops to sell firearms. Stokes' suggestion that the city's pawnshops sell guns to supply the streets with weapons, reports the Clarion Ledger, were addressed by Kevin Macdonald, co-owner of Big Daddy's pawnshop chain, who said, "Not only do we not contribute to the crime problem, but we help solve crimes with the records we keep." Said Jackson Police Department Detective Al LeDoux, "The pawnshops that are selling guns are selling guns within the confines of the federal law. All of the guns sold by pawnshops are to legal adults. I've been a pawnshop detective for 12 years, and I've never seen a pawnshop sell a gun to an underage or nonqualified buyer." An opinion appearing in the newspaper the next day began, "Jackson Ward 3 Councilman Kenneth I. Stokes' proposal to ban gun sales in pawn shops to help stem gun crimes is like banning car sales at used car lots to prevent traffic violations."


 
 




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