RSS Feeds  Gun used to kill NY cop made familiar trip with stops
in Va.  Saturday - 1/26/2013, 2:19pm  ET  Associated Press  NEW
YORK - On a cold night late in 2011, prosecutors say, five men
plotted a robbery, thinking it would be an easy score.  They had
the target, a home of small-time drug dealer in Brooklyn; the
getaway car, a beat-up Nissan sedan; and the gun, an illegal,
semi-automatic pistol loaded with a 10-round magazine.  But when
they began to act on their plan, it went badly wrong. And
moments later, a New York City police officer was dead from a
gunshot wound to his head.  Now, two of the suspects are on
trial for murder in what city officials say is another example
of illegal weapons funneled into New York being used for
unnecessary violence. The men have pleaded not guilty and say
the death of Officer Peter Figoski was a tragic accident.  "The
vast majority of shootings we have in the streets of this city
are handguns, illegal handguns," Police Commissioner Raymond
Kelly said this week, arguin