by Data Age | May 20, 2014 | Firearms, Industry, News
“Smart guns” have been in the news recently. A gun store owner in Maryland abandoned plans to begin selling a German-made “smart gun” after protests–some of which included death threats. Such threats are crimes, and ought to be prosecuted, if the perpetrators can be...
by Data Age | May 20, 2014 | Industry, News
(CBS) – A sour deal at a South Shore pawn shop leads to a shooting and robbery. Now, two men who work at Cash 4 Gold are recovering from gunshot wounds. CBS 2′s Roseanne Tellez reports. Police say the men, ages 49 and 29, were both shot in the leg and are in stable...
by Data Age | May 20, 2014 | Business, Compliance, Industry, Laws, Management, New to the Industry, News
Fort Worth, the only major city in the state not to pass an ordinance restricting the operations of payday lenders, is taking a new look at the issue. Two weeks ago, City Manager Tom Higgins released a report on payday lenders for council members, noting that most of...
by Data Age | May 20, 2014 | Business, Compliance, Firearms, Industry, Laws, Management, News
Obama plan pressures financial institutions Gun retailers say the Obama administration is trying to put them out of business with regulations and investigations that bypass Congress and choke off their lines of credit, freeze their assets and prohibit online sales....
by Data Age | May 20, 2014 | Business, Compliance, Industry, Laws, Management, New to the Industry, News
SPRINGFIELD, Mass (WGGB) — Putting pawn shops to the test, ABC40 entered one local store as a customer to make a deal and show how new regulations are working. Springfield’s so called “pawn shop ordinance” was the center of heated debate the past few years in the...
by Data Age | May 20, 2014 | Industry, Marketing
At this late stage of its development as a sub-genre of modern cinema, the “Holocaust movie” has become an increasingly dicey endeavor for both filmmakers and their audience. For roughly the past fifty years or so, stories set in a context of the Third Reich’s...
