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Bounty hunters need more regulation

Trention New Jersey: After 2 bounty hunters busted into the wrong apartment in search of fugitives, the call for the need of more regulation of bounty hunters was reignited. Even worse, the two reportedly burglarized the apartment and stole some jewelry.
While American popular culture and TV glamorizes vigilante justice, most people fail to realize the [...]

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Gun buyers database missing mental health records

Although federal law disqualifies the mentally ill from buying firearms, none of their names are listed in the databases that licensed gun dealers are required to check when they sell somebody a gun. The problem is most states have strict privacy laws that prevents access to such information by law enforcement.
An Alabama man Farron Barksdale [...]

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Newspaper loophole – Market for Illegal Gun Sales

While firearms sales by licensed gun dealers are strictly regulated, gun sales between private individuals are completely unregulated. Unlike licensed gun dealers, private individuals are not required to do any paperwork or run any criminal background checks on their customers when they want to sell a gun.
It is of course illegal under Federal law to [...]

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