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Public speaker urges council to target small group of dealers linked to majority of traced guns in city
Summary
A Brady United workshop participant told council that a small share of gun dealers supply most firearms used in violent crimes and urged the city to use trace reports and pop-up visits to crack down on violative dealers, citing a local supplier named Markle Supply Company.
During the public-comment period on June 24, Aikahana Halmaquinha, who said she had attended a Brady United workshop on gun sourcing, urged Pittsburgh City Council to focus enforcement on a small group of gun dealers she said are responsible for a disproportionate share of traced firearms used in violent crime.
Halmaquinha told council that "5% of the dealers, the gun dealers, are supplying 90% of the guns that are used in inner city crime,"…
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