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Three Days in a Las Vegas Gun Shop
The debate over gun control tends to reduce guns to symbols on the one hand violence, on the other a constitutional right that shall not be whittled away. But walk into any of the nation's some 50,000 odd gun stores and these weapons get very real, very fast.
By Barbara Bogaev • • 9m ListenThe debate over gun control tends to reduce guns to symbols on the one hand violence, on the other a constitutional right that shall not be whittled away. But walk into any of the nation's some 50,000 odd gun stores and these weapons get very real, very fast. Bloomberg BusinessWeek reporter Paul Barrett recently spent three days in a gun shop in Las Vegas to get a better sense of the buyers, the sellers, and why sales are going up.
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