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Mesa was founded in January 1878 by Latter-day Saint pioneers and its population is still roughly one-tenth Mormon. It is home to a large and older LDS temple that puts on a highly crafted Easter Pageant every spring for all to see. In 2006, the population was 455,984 but is expected to reach over 600,000 when the city reaches build-out. Mesa is the third largest Arizona city next to Phoenix and Tucson and 37th largest in the United States. Mesa is a great place to live with events, activities, dining and shopping keep residents and its surrounding communities busy all year long.
Pawn shops are well regulated and policed financial institutions. As gun dealers they hold a FFL license. Pawn shops are sometimes thought of as "shady operations," but that's a common and out dated fallacy. Pawn shop�s business is mostly new merchandise, the rest are used and unredeemed pawned items. Pawn shops are expanding out of the ghettos and into the suburbs. Pawn shops have to look for signs of stolen property to avoid costly mistakes. It is not in the interests of the pawn shop to accept potentially stolen merchandise because the police can confiscate the merchandise and the pawnshop owner loses the collateral and the loaned money.


