NPA This Week in Pawn
The Columbus Dispatch
Florida has a database so those buying firearms can search to make sure the weapon hasn’t been reported stolen. At least one local firing range owner thinks Ohio should follow suit.
Bozeman Daily Chronicle
“Hocked,” was shot entirely in Bozeman and Belgrade, using Montana volunteers as actors. Most of it takes place in a pawn shop, but other parts of the film are with places and people readers may recognize.
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Guitar.com
Back in the day, Leo Fender thought a new guitar model would simply take the place of an earlier one. He figured the new improved Stratocaster, introduced in 1954, would replace the Telecaster, because he viewed the Tele and the Strat not as individual instruments but as a single piece of design work in continual progress, a sort of developmental whole.
Mail Tribune
The Jackson County District Attorney’s Office has charged Jason John Robert Drayer, 33, with two counts of identity theft, first-degree theft, two counts of second-degree theft and unlawful entry into a motor vehicle.
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Diamonds.net
In a December 31 permit request to Canada’s Mackenzie Valley Land and Water Board, De Beers noted interest in exploring 11 new targets at the Gahcho Kué mine by the end of February. Of the 11 locations, three are currently ready for drilling, while De Beers plans to perform geophysical studies on the remaining eight. The project, which will be split into two phases, will cost approximately $2.9 million.
Daily Republic
Andy’s Pawn Shop has a little of everything and plenty of stories to go with each item for sale.
The business was started by the late Andy Pasterick in 1958 and bought by Walter Runkle in 1981. Runkle was working at Mare Island in nuclear refueling.
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