  Have guns, will travel   At a recent press conference South
Carolina’s spokesperson for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and
Firearms said “”We want to stop the gun traffickers. It makes
the legal gun owners look bad.”  South Carolina ranks sixth in
the country for firearms trafficking.  Meanwhile New York City
has some of the toughest gun laws in the country. In fact over
85 percent of guns used in crimes in NYC were purchased in other
states. Many of them in South Carolina  In 2006 NYC Mayor
Michael Bloomberg induced the city to sue a South Carolina
pawnshop owner for illegal gun sales. He was one of a dozen gun
dealers NYC sued under those charges. Ultimately most plead
guilty and were given probation.  Then in October 2012, the New
York Police Department pulled off a major bust and over a
hundred guns were seized. According to the the District
Attorney’s office many of the guns came from straw sales, retail
outlets and guns shows in South Carolina.  This is same problem
that other high crime areas are ex