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There are always ways and means in a city to get a gun. And this is one of the easiest places to get one. With or without a licence.
A couple of right questions asked on a street corner and I'm in the room of a shabby downtown hotel with worn brown seventies furniture and a small, hunched guy who dresses like he missed a few decades.
He talks me through my options. He wears a tan leather jacket past the waist and his bushy black sideburns long. He has this season's catalogue laid out in a large silver suitcase. It’s opened up on the bed.
The guy’s name is Yuri—Eastern European with a nervous energy and one eye on the door.
After padding me down and checking me for a wire, he hands me weapon after weapon. Automatic nine millimetres, semi-automatic pistols, the classics, the new mode
