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/ɡˈʌnɹʌnɪŋ/
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NOUN
- the smuggling of guns and ammunition into a country secretly and illegally
How To Use gunrunning In A Sentence
- An editorial in the daily "La Jornada" regarding the two gunrunning programs, questioned whether the US is an "ally or enemy" of Mexico link in Spanish. Aurelia Fierros: Mexicans Irate About Fast and Furious, Wide Receiver
- Morales told the Mexican press over a week ago -at that time, unaware of the additional US gunrunning probe- she had demanded a full explanation from the United States government, and also confirmed that at least 200 murders have occurred in Mexico as a result of Operation Fast and Furious. Aurelia Fierros: Mexicans Irate About Fast and Furious, Wide Receiver
- ATF officials therefore spent weeks deliberating whether to scale back Operation Gunrunner, part of the Obama administration's effort to attack Mexican drug cartels by cracking down on gunrunning along the southwest border. Budget Cutting Starts at Justice Department
- If I play my cards right, we could close down his drug smuggling, his gunrunning and his people trafficking. THE LAST TEMPTATION
- These connected crimes include corruption of state officials, forgery, use of fraud to obtain false certificates, blackmail, gunrunning, drug trafficking and money laundering.
- Organized crime is involved in extortion, kidnaping, murder, fixing bids for public works, and gunrunning.
- Some of those weapons no doubt moved to Western Europe, where Albanian gangsters are heavily involved in gunrunning.
- Officials at a news conference said Avila took part in a gunrunning scheme to take 700 weapons across the border between September 2009 and December 2010. ATF gunrunning probe strategy scrutinized after death of Border Patrol agent
- Obama administration officials have responded with a surge in spending to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the Department of Homeland Security, and promises to curb cross-border gunrunning. U.S. and Mexico struggle to stop flow of weapons across border
- Of course, she is a smuggler, so the gunrunning could be a legitimate charge. T2: INFILTRATOR
