pawnshop

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“Without having a rigorous, effective enforcement, nothing’s going to happen,” said Tony DeMarco, a pawnshop owner and president of the Whittier Boulevard Merchants Assn., which opposed the ordinance.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 30, 2024

Cooper had bought the firearm 50 days earlier from a pawnshop in Renton, Ben’s Loan, prosecutors allege.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 19, 2023

Dave’s birthday gift the next year was a rusty, warped bamboo fly rod and reel that his father bought in a pawnshop.

From New York Times • Dec. 29, 2022

In 1998, he decided to try DJing professionally and went to the pawnshop to buy better equipment.

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2022

Mr. Tomony who owned the pawnshop came home in a hansom cab from his spendthrift evening in New York.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith