pawnshop
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“Without having a rigorous, effective enforcement, nothing’s going to happen,” said Tony DeMarco, a pawnshop owner and president of the Whittier Boulevard Merchants Assn., which opposed the ordinance.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2024
Cooper had bought the firearm 50 days earlier from a pawnshop in Renton, Ben’s Loan, prosecutors allege.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2023
Deborah Pomeranz, a provenance researcher at Berlin City Museum, said it acquired about 4,700 silver objects from a Berlin pawnshop from 1939 to 1940.
From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2023
In 1998, he decided to try DJing professionally and went to the pawnshop to buy better equipment.
From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2022
They would fetch a taxi then and take it all to a pawnshop.
From "A Thousand Splendid Suns" by Khaled Hosseini
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