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August 15, Phoenix, AZ

6:00-8:30 PM       Welcome: Civic Space Park
8:30-10:00 PM     March & Vigil

Return to Civic Space and closing

In the Downtown Civic Space Park, 424 N central Ave., Phoenix 85004

Watch the event in Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/392385704162037/

Phoenix has 219 licensed gun dealers in the city, out of 1,781 dealers in all Arizona. During the Fast and Furious operation, Lone Wolf Trading of suburban Glendale made good money selling hundreds of military–‐style weapons to gun traffickers. In 2009 and 2010, 185 guns recovered in Mexico were traced back to Lone Wolf, while 130 were traced to J&G Sales in Prescott. Cabela’s, Copper State Guns and Dynamic Armament in Glendale, and X Caliber Guns, Mo Money Pawn, Shooters World, and Phoenix Gun Center in Phoenix were traced to another 139 guns in Mexico from 2007 to 2010, including three used in homicides in Nuevo Laredo, Tijuana and Cuahtemoc. Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is a member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns, whichsupports establishing the gun dealer Code of Conduct to prevent straw purchases of guns.

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