Area Gun Shops Targeted

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Happening outside of the city in rural areas. Tell your gun store owners to be vigilant.

Good friend of mine got a call at midnight by his alarm company. Four idiots trying to breach the back door. He lives just around the corner. Scared them off at gun point only to turn and face the barrel of an officers AR-15 pointed at him. They straightened things out quickly.

Two bad guys were caught immediately. The other two were caught an hour later. None of them wore masks and must have said "cheese" while looking at the camera above the door. Cops had em dead to rights.

Go directly to jail. Do not pass go!
 
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A pawn shop in St. Louis was broken in by four oxygen wasters. They climbed on the roof of a van and broke out a window to gain access to the pawn shop. They stole something like 32 guns. Two rifles and 30 pistols. They shot their own guns into glass cases containing the guns and made off with them.

Looks like today one of them was arrested. Police were looking at Facebook and noticed the sellers hands were in the picture, all bandaged up. They arrested him and he had in his possession some of the stolen guns.
Serves him right.
I bet his family tree does not branch out much.
 
There is another post here about the two shops in my city that were the targets of break-ins Sunday night. They didn't get into either.
 
The shop here in Pleasant Grove Alabama was broken into a couple of nights ago. Had been burglarized several times before, and was heavily fortified. They pulled a SUV up to the front doors which had steel gates across, hooked a chain around everything and pulled the whole door assembly out of the building. Then the shop was rushed by a dozen plus thugs who each grabbed what they could and ran.
Don't know the whole story yet. But, apparently some of them were caught on I59 going back toward Birmingham. I had a gun or two on consignment there. I presume they were stolen as well. Haven't had a chance to talk to the owner yet. This may do him in. He's been afraid that if he had any more burglaries that he would not be able to get insurance. I hope this won't be the case.
 
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Many years ago when I was living in the Washington, DC area, the anti-gun Washington Post newspaper ran a series of articles about gun shops in the area. One of the articles was a detailed plan on how to break-in and rob the shops. With in three months of the publication of the article, four gun shops in the area were robbed in the exact manner described in the newspaper. True to newspaper fashion of never letting a tradgy go unused, the Post respond with articles about how unsafe gun stores were and should be banned/closed.
 
Local Walmart (5 miles away - Columbus Ohio) closed at 7:00 last night , which was very odd. I did read that they have pulled all ammo from the sales floor.

As long as Waffle House remains open , we should be ok....

Old timer once said , if they close the Waffle House , you know that SHTF, you should get out too.


(Honestly it was hurricane related)
 
"Touchy" about laws

I'm aware that many tend to think of any gun law or regulation as a 2nd Amendment infringement. Yet, when we hear about burglars cleaning out gun stores, you have to ask, what affect will this have on our legislators when these guns turn up perhaps in a tragic crime?
I believe NYS has a law requiring all gun store handgun inventory to be returned to a safe during off hours. I haven't heard of any wholesale theft of gun store handguns since then. Most of us keep our handguns in a safe for the very same reason.
 
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For as long as I can remember
gun stores have been targets
of thieves.

And same goes for jewelry stores,
electronic stores, drug stores and
liquor stores as well as automobile
dealerships.
 
Gun shop and indoor range was broken into last night in Raleigh, NC. Its one of my favorite shops and I know the owner and employees well. They have very serious security and no guns were taken. Three "gentlemen" completely covered, head to toe, went through a transom window over the front door. Video system got good video, but no faces visible on the clips I have seen.

I'm afraid its going to happen more and more and given the thought process of the "leaders" in Raleigh I fully expect the gun shop owners to be blamed and the "undocumented shoppers" to be ignored.
 
I know the gun shop that WCCPHD is referring to, having taken my concealed carry course there. During these troubling times, I too would have probably opted to stay in the store if I owned such a shop. And yes, they have a good crew there. However, I would have insured that I wasn't alone.

I'm thinking of the grandfatherly retired black police captain who was murdered either guarding or helping to guard his friend's pawn shop during the current riots. Many years ago, there a was a gun shop in the Bronx, NY, where the robbers, anticipating an armed response, struck in a pre-emptive manner, entered the store, shot and killed the proprietor. My observation of many gun shops over the past decades is that they tend to have lots of guns, lots of employees carrying openly but no tactical defense plan.
 
As to tactical defense on a day to day
basis, I've known a few gun stores,
pawn shops that have a loaded shotgun or
two discreetly placed for quick access.
Sometimes loaded handguns were also
available but not in plain sight.
 
Gun shops and pawn shops had to tighten security here when the cartels began organizing raids and stealing heavy trucks to drive through the door or walls of gun shops then grabbing up the ARs and stashing them in apartments awaiting transit across the border. One group was caught when they used the apartment across the street. Have not heard of any local mass gun thefts lately, but then I have stopped paying close attention to the news. .
 
The BATFE has sent emails and recorded voice messages by phone to FFL holders in my area warning of this situation and reminding the Licensees of the obligation to properly secure all firearms from theft. The problem must be fairly widespread for these types of communications to be coming from the BATFE.
 
There is a rally/march/protest in my neighboring town is this evening.
The two gun stores in that town are located on a very busy section of 2
US highways, with Walmart, Burger King, Arby's, Taco John's, etc for neighbors. Which leaves me to think that if there would be any gun store breakins it would likely be mine. My partner and I have discussed it at length and vastly updated our security and response plans. Any walkin customers the past several days we have carefully watched for indications of casing the place and have pictures of vehicles including license plates of a couple of them. And all is also recorded on 24 hr DVR.
Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst.
 
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