NPA This Week in Pawn

Local police, pawn shop give away free gun safety locks

Herald & Review
Professional standards officer George Kestner with the Decatur Police Department said the law is relatively new and the department wants to make people aware of it.

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California’s privacy reforms can drive national legislation

American Banker

The CCPA broadened consumer rights to know how their personal information is collected, used and shared. It also established new consumer rights to obtain copies of all their personal information; to demand deletion of it; to opt-out from the sale of their information; and to non-discrimination.

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Man charged with burglary after 66 guns taken from Columbia pawn shop

ABC 17
A Hallsville man was arrested and charged in connection with a burglary at a Columbia, Mo., pawn shop in which 66 guns were stolen.

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Pawn Stars' antiques dealer defends decision to auction uniform worn by Hitler

NBC 7 San Diego

A Del Mar-based military antiques dealer is defending his decision to auction off a Nazi uniform worn by Adolf Hitler, dismissing the idea that he is profiting off the Holocaust.

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Pawn shop was fencing stolen items, cops say

Sun Sentinel

Richie’s Pawn & Guns in Tamarac, FL, touts its more than two decades of experience in the pawn industry and says “you’ll be amazed by what you can find and its low cost.” The business at 5227 N. State Road 7 was raided by detectives from the Broward Sheriff’s Office after “a year-long investigation into an organized retail crime operation where the suspects knowingly sold stolen merchandise,” the agency said.

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