BY NICK CLUNN
STAFF WRITER
TRENTON Individuals with criminal records bought handgun ammunition from nine
different
stores in Monmouth and Ocean counties, according to testimony heard today by a
state
panel investigating the link between bullet sales and street violence.
Seven of those stores were in Ocean County, which ranked first among the 19 of
21 New
Jersey counties looked at by the State Commission of Investigation, an
independent
watchdog of state government.
The commission used those figures to expose the lack of state laws regulating
ammunition sales and how some of those purchases end up in the guns of gang
members
who use violence to control some of New Jersey's most dangerous neighborhoods.
For the most part, sales to people with criminal pasts in the Shore area and
elsewhere
were legal, as vendors are only required to make sure buyers are at least 21
years old, and
to hand-write details about the sale into a log book.
This afternoon, officers from the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office are
expected to
testify about the connection between ammunition sales and a recent rise in the
number of
fatal shootings in Asbury Park.
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