ROANOKE TIMES 

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, July 3, 1993                   TAG: 9307030113
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C5   EDITION: METRO 
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LAST FLING FOR GUN-RUNNERS?

Even as their shopping days were dwindling, gun-runners allegedly were having a final fling in Virginia's gun bazaar.

Federal firearms authorities say four people tried to cart almost 250 guns north out of Newport News a few weeks before a handgun-a-month purchase limit took effect Thursday. Many of the guns are unrecovered and assumed to have been sold on the streets of New York City.

"If the one-gun-a-month law had been in effect, this obviously would not have happened," said Ron Tarrington, agent in charge of the Norfolk office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.

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