The charges include conspiracy to transport firearms across state lines, conspiracy to transport defaced firearms across state lines, conspiracy to sell firearms across state lines and conspiracy to transport and receive stolen property across state lines, according to the complaint.
He then threw one of Arenas's firearms across the room.
The arrests on Tuesday were based on charges that include conspiracy to transport firearms across state lines, conspiracy to transport defaced firearms across state lines, conspiracy to sell firearms across state lines and conspiracy to transport and receive stolen property across state lines, one of the people said.
The dispute in Atlanta comes at a time when the regulation of firearms across the country is changing.
They counted "at least 61 mass murders carried out with firearms across the country, with the killings unfolding in 30 states from Massachusetts to Hawaii," they found.
GUN CONTROL: Federal laws on gun control were softened in legislation making it easier to buy, sell and transport firearms across state lines.
Gun dealers would be able to sell firearms across state lines, for example, and gun owners with state-issued permits to carry concealed weapons would be allowed to take their firearms through states that don't allow concealed weapons.
Responding to what regional officials have called a threat to national security, the authorities arrested 224 gang members during a weeklong national dragnet, charging them with trafficking in drugs and firearms across Mexico and Central America.
After years of lobbying by the NRA, which donated $1.4 million to congressional candidates in 1984, Congress rolled back the 1968 restrictions on buying, selling and transporting firearms across state lines and limited inspections of gun dealers to one per year.
