{"id":10330,"date":"2006-12-15T16:49:59","date_gmt":"2006-12-15T23:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/12\/15\/police-target-surging-gun-sales-xinhua-news-agency\/"},"modified":"2006-12-15T16:49:59","modified_gmt":"2006-12-15T23:49:59","slug":"police-target-surging-gun-sales-xinhua-news-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/12\/police-target-surging-gun-sales-xinhua-news-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Police target surging gun sales &#8211; Xinhua News Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/_img211_7126_0coverweb9yf.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/_img211_7126_0coverweb9yf.jpg','popup','width=320,height=205,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/_img211_7126_0coverweb9yf-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"156\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\" Img211 7126 0Coverweb9Yf\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFrom Xinhua News Agency via Shanghai Daily:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nServing a two-year jail term for gun-running, Xu Junyou longs for freedom and an honest job in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guangdong\">Guangdong Province<\/a>, south China&#8217;s economic powerhouse. Xu had been a farmer in Songtao Miao Autonomous County, of the southwestern <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guizhou\">Guizhou Province<\/a>, before his conviction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know it&#8217;s a crime to sell guns,&#8221; Xu says, &#8220;but the rewards were too tempting &#8211; it was as much as my family can earn in three months.&#8221; Two hundred yuan (US$25) was his reward for selling a pistol. For Xu, who had completed five years at school and scraped a living from less than a 10th of a hectare of farm land, that was a fortune&#8230;.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shanghaidaily.com\/art\/2006\/12\/16\/300043\/Police_target_surging_gun_sales.htm\">[Full Text]<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read also the previous <a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/tag\/illegal%20weapons\">posts<\/a> about this issue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Xinhua News Agency via Shanghai Daily: Serving a two-year jail term for gun-running, Xu Junyou longs for freedom and an honest job in Guangdong Province, south China&#8217;s economic powerhouse. Xu had been a farmer in Songtao Miao Autonomous County, of the southwestern Guizhou Province, before his conviction. &#8220;I know it&#8217;s a crime to sell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[3400,1586],"class_list":["post-10330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-society","tag-illegal-weapons","tag-public-security","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Police target surging gun sales - Xinhua News Agency<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/12\/police-target-surging-gun-sales-xinhua-news-agency\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Police target surging gun sales - Xinhua News Agency\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"From Xinhua News Agency via Shanghai Daily: Serving a two-year jail term for gun-running, Xu Junyou longs for freedom and an honest job in Guangdong Province, south China&#8217;s economic powerhouse. 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