This is why NYC should be able to conduct border searches on everyone entering NYC [View all]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/20/nyregion/as-terror-hit-boston-a-startling-discovery-in-new-york.html?_r=0&pagewanted=print

A woman in the sleek lobby of the World Center Hotel, located just outside the entrance to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum at the World Trade Center site, sat down in one of the stylish, modern chairs on Monday afternoon. She felt something strange beneath her. Under the cushion was a loaded pistol.
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The obvious first question at the hotel on Washington Street was whether there were video cameras. Yes. The officers watched and soon found what they were looking for. At around the 2 p.m. mark, a husky, bald man, wearing a dark shirt and white shorts, entered the hotel and placed the gun under the cushion, before leaving again. Hotel employees did not believe he was a guest
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Officers took the video and left to begin examining more feeds from the myriad cameras in the area, to retrace the man’s movements that afternoon. They spotted the man in videos taken in the minutes leading up to his hiding the gun. He was waiting in line with other visitors toward the entrance to the memorial. He passed signs that read “Security Screening Ahead,” and “Prohibited Items” above the silhouette of a pistol.

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After watching the videos, officers tracked down the memorial employee he had spoken to. The man, they were told, had asked “whether law enforcement or police officers off duty were allowed to enter armed,” Mr. Browne said. “He indicated he was from out of town, from the South. He may have indicated the Carolinas.” The gun was traced back to a Georgia pawnshop some time ago, then bought by someone who sold it to someone else, who then sold it “to a party unknown” for the last time on record, Mr. Browne said. It was unclear when these transactions took place, but none involved a police agency, he said.


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