"People are coming in and selling everything, " says Glenn Parshall, manager of a pawn shop on the northern side of Vegas.

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The president of the pawn shop, Jim Hedrick, said he was not aware of the lawsuit, but remembers the gun purchase in question.

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Sweet vindication for Morris, 64, who learned about finance in the pawn shop and funeral home businesses before launching AmeriCredit in 1987.

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Head to the pawn shop.

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Pawn-shop owners and dealers through the Chicagoland area were notified.

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One of the gun sellers named in the suit, JJ's Pawn Shop in Beaumont, Texas, says it did nothing illegal.

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Cook, who has a prior history of arrests for thefts and burglary, was identified when an HP laptop stolen from one of the hotel rooms was found in a local pawn shop, where staff helped police to identify him.

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