Everyone seems to be on the look out for a place to sell gold for cash in order to make extra money or to pay bills because their paychecks just don’t seem to cover everything anymore.

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According to the National Pawnbrokers Association less than .05 percent of all items taken to a pawn shop are stolen items.  With the new safeguards in place, many criminals know better than to bring their “hot” valuables to a local pawn shop.  Many police and detectives frequently stop by pawn shops with a stolen goods list to see if anything matches if the pawn shop owner does not provide the information for them or it is not a law in their state.  If the criminals are stupid enough to bring in and try to pawn a stolen item, the safeguards will allow for a police officer to apprehend them; however this leaves the pawn shop owner out of the money they gave the person for the item, if it’s gotten that far.

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