For years the pawnbroker's traditional three gold balls have been the symbol of the down-and-outer.
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms inspectors are visiting Virginia's 2,200-plus gun dealers and pawnbrokers, searching records for sales of rifles that fire the .
General William Booth, its founder, was a rebela onetime pawnbroker's apprentice and Methodist preacher who abandoned the class-conscious churches of his day to preach salvation .