Iron Pipeline

Tue Mar 29 03:37:43 UTC 2005

IRON PIPELINE + GUNS--247 Google hits, 18 Google Groups hits

"Iron pipeline" is not in the Historical Dictionary of American Slang and not in the Cassell Dictionary of Slang. I'll add it to my website.

28 March 2005, AM NEW YORK, pg. 1, cols. 2-4 headline:
_THE GUN RUN_
_New York's Finest struggle_
_to shut down I-95's "Iron Pipeline"_
(...)
The highway is dubbed the "Iron Pipeline bacuse thousands of guns purchased in Georgia, Virginia, Florida and North and South Carolina travel up the coastline on that road and wind up being used in crimes in New York.

(GOOGLE GROUPS)
"Intellectual Argument for Gun Control "
... area knows, I-55 and I-57 serve not only as Dick Durbin's alleged "iron pipeline,"
but also ... Such is much more plausible than some evil "gun running" conspiracy ...
talk.politics.guns - Aug 17 1997, 10:30 am by Bang - 2505 messages - 273 authors

What's the GunRunning State THIS Week?
... Expy., it can also be considered a Firearms Freeway or the Iron Pipeline,'' Blagojevich
said ... down to states where the laws are lax.'' Of the 4,539 guns used in ...
talk.politics.guns - Jul 14 1997, 3:24 am by HerrGlock - 4 messages - 4 authors

1997CRH4920C URGING SUPPORT FOR RESTRICTIONS ON GUN TRAFFICKERS
... It brings a whole new meaning to the phrase, ``Have gun, will travel.'' We can take
steps to shut the valve on the iron pipeline and on other interstate ...
gov.us.fed.congress.record.house - Jul 10 1997, 10:10 am by n... at house.gov - 1 message - 1 author

(FACTIVA)
NATIONAL NEWS
Guns bought in Georgia arm Northern criminals

Bill Montgomery STAFF WRITER
1,519 words
11 October 1993
Atlanta Constitution
A/1

Because of Georgia's lax gun-control laws, guns bought here are involved in an ever-increasing number of crimes in major Northern cities.
They are not, for the most part, stolen guns. They are legally purchased and sent up Interstate 95's "Iron Pipeline" to cities where gun- control laws are generally tighter.

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LOCAL NEWS
3 men charged with running guns to N.Y.

R. Robin McDonald STAFF WRITER
227 words
17 December 1993
Atlanta Constitution
F/2

A two-year investigation by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the FBI culminated this week with the indictments of two Atlanta men and one former resident on charges of running guns from Atlanta to New York.
The indictments, issued by a federal grand jury in Atlanta Wednesday, charge Jibri Abdur Rahman, 39, and Amin Abdur Karim, 33, with using their Atlanta business, the Al-Fajr Trading Co., to purchase guns that were later shipped to New York and illegally sold, the U.S. attorney's office in Atlanta said Thursday.
The indictments say Rahman and Karim bought more than 900 handguns and assault weapons between 1989 and 1991 and shipped them to an unlicensed gun dealer in New York.
In a separate indictment, former Atlanta resident Gregory Andrew, now of West Palm Beach, Fla., was charged with illegally shipping firearms by Federal Express from Georgia to New York, federal authorities said.
The indictments are part of an ongoing effort by the ATF to stem the illegal flow of guns along Interstate 95, dubbed "the Iron Pipeline," between Atlanta and Northern cities such as New York, where laws regulating gun sales are far more strict, said Thomas Stokes, special agent in charge of the ATF's Atlanta office.

(FACTIVA)
NEWS
DAILY NEWS SPECIAL REPORT
GEORGIA'S GUNS 0N N.Y.'S MIND Probers link attacks to flood of pistols from South

PATRICE O'SHAUGHNESSY DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
897 words
16 May 2000
New York Daily News
SPORTS FINAL
7

The city's illegal gun market is booming, and authorities blame an "iron pipeline" from northwestern Georgia that enabled just one group of gunrunners to bring as many as 100 weapons here.

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News
Student gunrunning is growing problem for N.Y.

PATRICE O'SHAUGHNESSY
New York Daily News
876 words
20 October 2002
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Early
23A

(...)
'Iron pipeline'
Georgia, which does not restrict the number of firearms in a single purchase, has been dubbed "the iron pipeline" because so many guns flow from there.
David Fields, a supervisory agent for the bureau in Atlanta, said it's been a perennial problem -- students in Georgia fueling the black market for weapons in their hometowns.
"But if you're from a market area like New York, the temptation is greater," Fields said. "We're seeing more of them more frequently now."

(FACTIVA)
Editorial Desk; Section A
Shutting Down the 'Iron Pipeline'

397 words
8 May 2003
The New York Times
Page 36, Column 1

In a Brooklyn courtroom last month, a Columbia University professor delivered a lesson in why existing gun laws do not work. The professor, Dr. Howard Andrews, testified that 90 percent of the guns recovered in New York crime investigations from 1996 to 2000 had been bought out of state. A large number came from five states with lax gun laws: Virginia, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
The suit in which Dr. Andrews testified, in which a ruling is expected shortly, charges gun manufacturers and dealers with doing too little to stop illegal handgun sales. His data give the fullest picture yet of the ''iron pipeline,'' in which guns are transported from Southern states. The iron pipeline is one of the biggest factors in thwarting New York in its efforts to keep guns off the streets and out of the hands of criminals. There are ways to stop the flow.

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