Secondly, a change in the ownership pattern of publicly traded shares is making transactions and challenges easier.

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The pattern of dismally low ownership of businesses among the most disadvantaged groups, the researchers found, is not specific to any one region or state in India.

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That pattern certainly appears to be very true in American cities, at least with respect to legal gun ownership.

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