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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blaubart, post: 1730895, member: 37498&quot;]Good find. Strange that the source I found said the full text of the bill was never released. At least it would have allowed for selling without an original receipt:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>As for the paper, yes I did read most of it and it has nothing to do with the effects of laws requiring proof of ownership or stringent administrative record keeping requirements placed upon bullion dealers. It merely documents a tenuous relationship between the number of pawn shops and the number of burglaries, larcenies, and robberies. It does not prove which leads to which. Pawn shops could very well be the responsive element in that high property crime areas tend to have more pawn shops, not that more pawn shops cause more crime. Also, did you notice what kind of relationship the author found between pawn shops and propery crimes? Here ya go:</p><p><br /></p><p><font face="TimesNewRoman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="TimesNewRoman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="TimesNewRoman">Despite the fact that the paper does not &quot;prove&quot; pawn shops increase crime, the author keeps saying things like &quot;pawnshops raises the rate of robberies...&quot;. In order to prove which causes which, a time based study of pawn shops and crime rates would be required. Looking at the author&#039;s CV, he is smart enough to know this, which leads me to believe he was either lazy, or his paper was intentionally biased.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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