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NEW YORK (AP) - The guns were sold in Virginia, the lives taken so violently just a few miles away. It is the guns bought there and used for crimes elsewhere that have long had mayors nationwide angry.
With a credit card and a lie, Cho Seung-Hui was able to walk out of a pawnshop and a gun store with the handguns he later used to slaughter 32, and then kill himself. The state's background check failed to turn up his history of mental illness in each of the two sales.
Other guns sold in Virginia have surfaced in significant numbers of crimes in New York and throughout the Northeast corridor — Washington, Philadelphia, New York — inspiring Mayor Michael Bloomberg to become a crusader against gun trafficking.
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