Police look to expand pawnshop oversight onto touchy turf — shops that buy used guns

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http://www.gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080508/NEWS/390472029

CEDAR RAPIDS — Pawnshop owners have a point, police Lt. Kenneth Washburn says.

Why, the shop owners have asked, should the Police Department require pawnshop owners to document for police inspection every used item the pawn shops purchase when other stores buy used items that might as easily have been stolen?

The sense of the argument, however, has sent the Police Department into swampy territory — to the three non-pawnshop stores in Cedar Rapids that buy used guns......
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not sure how i feel on this- part of me really has no problem- they do it for other stolen goods and i think they could initiate some proposal that would prevent them from creating a blanket registry of gun owners. The other part of me understands that tricky part of having police data bases with possible law abiding citizens on it- just because they own guns