October 11, 2002

Students Charged With Gun Trafficking

A growing number of students from New York City who attend Southern colleges are buying guns in the states where they have enrolled and then selling them in their hometown, according to federal law-enforcement officials.

The New York Daily News reported last month that students at colleges in Alabama, Georgia, Texas, and other states have brought at least 800 cheap firearms to New York in the past two years. Some of the guns were later used in attempted robberies and other

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