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Sounds to me like a PR stunt and nothing else. Bloomberg is trying to save some face.
If the dealers sold the weapons illegally, hunt 'em down. Sure. If you think that's the real problem, go right ahead. However, what they didn't give the statistics for were the rest of the people killed in NYC with illegal guns and where those guns come from. 500 guns? I mean really... 500? That's all? They are tracking 500 and want to justify THAT as their crackdown? I know they've probably recovered or pulled in the 10000s of guns off the streets of NYC during that same time period. Of those, what percentage came from INSIDE New York, or rather, they just can't FIND where they came from. The bottom line is, they managed to track down a tiny percentage of the guns, found a few anomalies in the data, and are using it to their advantage.
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