Arrowhead Pawn Shop is a pawn shop and part of the Iron Pipeline . It was founded in 1991 and is located in Jonesboro , Georgia . The store was described as the most significant source outside of New York State of guns recovered by the New York Police Department in 2009 . After a gun from the shop was used in the murders of two New York City Police Department ( NYPD ) officers , the '' New York Times '' reported that Arrowhead ranked fifth on the U.S.-wide list of legal sources of guns used in crimes . The newspaper quoted an anonymous federal official as stating that " Arrowhead were like a Crazy Eddie of gun dealers . They had a lot of volume and they did a lot of business . " The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence describes Arrowhead as a " notorious ' bad apple ' gun dealer " , having sold over 1720 guns that were subsequently used in crimes
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2014 killings of NYPD officers
Arrowhead Pawn Shop