by Data Age | Apr 25, 2014 | Compliance, Gold & Jewelry, Industry
Pawn shops, gold buyers and used video game dealers must now get a license to operate in Greenwood. Secondhand stores, pawn shops and similar businesses must purchase a $25 permit; keep better records; and share information with police, under the new ordinance. Read...
by Data Age | Apr 25, 2014 | Gold & Jewelry, Industry
It appears that precious metals are in a new uptrend. Whether this is short term or longer remains to be seen. The action certainly has been a typical fake-out of the weaker longs; because just when they were getting shaken out of the market it turned positive. Read...
by Data Age | Apr 25, 2014 | Firearms, General Merchandise, Industry
Sales are booming for silencers, the cylindrical devices used to muffle gunfire. The civilian market for silencers soared 37% in 2013, when the total number shot up to nearly a half a million, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives...
by Data Age | Apr 25, 2014 | Industry
Four years after a Smith & Wesson .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun was used to kill an off-duty Chicago police officer, the Mississippi pawnshop owner who sold the gun in a straw purchase has agreed to concessions that authorities hope will curb similar illegal...
by Data Age | Apr 25, 2014 | Industry
Vermont attorney general William Sorrell says lenders are taking advantage of thousands of low and moderate income Vermonters by offering illegal short-term, high-interest loans over the Internet. read more here
by Data Age | Apr 25, 2014 | Industry
Presidential Pawn in downtown Rapid City, holds a World War II-era grenade that was brought into the store Tuesday by an elderly woman who wanted to sell it. Read article here!