By: E&P Staff The Boston Herald is dropping its distribution deal with Uncle Henry's Swap or Sell It Guide due to complaints the classified publication helps spread guns in the inner city.
"Our relationship has been severed," Herald spokeswoman Gwen Gage said. "There's concern that firearms for sale in the book end up on the streets of Boston, and we didn't want any part of that."
The decision, reported Friday by Boston Globe correspondent Vivian Nereim, followed complaints by the Citizens for Safety and other organizations that the Maine-based publication helped fuel illegal gun trafficking in the Boston area.
According to the Boston Globe report, most of the gun listings in Uncle Henry's classifieds are from sellers from Maine and New Hampshire, where private firearm sales do not require background checks. The publication, critics say, allows criminals to circumvent Massachusetts' much stricter gun-ownership requirements.
Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley told the Globe he welcomed the Herald's decision, saying "Uncle Henry's has been explicitly linked to black market firearms entering Boston and being used to commit crimes on our streets and neighborhoods.''
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