Are most items stolen that are for sale in a pawn shop?
NO. This industry is a profession that is run by professionals and is a highly regulated industry required by law to report every item that they lend on, or purchase from anyone. Plus, the individual that obtained the loans or sold the item must completely identify themselves with a government approved form of ID. The pawn brokers are required to report each item to the local authorities and to have serial numbers (where applicable) checked against any items reported stolen. Because Pawnbrokers are identified as financial institutions by FINCEN, they are also required to run every name of every consumer lending or selling products in their stores against the SDN, suspected terrorist list daily as maintained by the U.S. Government. Furthermore, the pawn broker must hold each item for 30 to 60 days (depending on what state they are in) just to make sure that the item does not get reported stolen at a later date. Once the item has been held for the proper amount of time or the consumer di
