Article: Santa Fe County, N.M., sheriff wants limit placed on blowgun sales.

By Jeremy Pawloski, Albuquerque Journal, N.M. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 22--SANTA FE, N.M. -- At Tina's Range Gear, employees of the Airport Road gun shop sometimes pass the time shooting darts through blowguns at the stuffed game animals that hang from the walls.

"They're fun," owner Tina Buchen said of the blowguns. "It's like shooting darts or horseshoes or a BB gun."

Buchen's employees use nothing but their breath to send a metal dart -- which can measure up to four inches long -- flying 15 to 20 feet at a stuffed monkey perched in a corner of the store.

But blowguns recently have been used for less fanciful ...

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