So over the last several months there have been a lot of gunstore smash and grabs. Way more then I have seen in the past. Hell in just this area a great many local shops have been hit. I have a weird feeling this is bigger then just your average tard looking for a fo-tay.

Just seems odd at the frequency.

Maybe the shitstorm that is the modern (antifakkkblm13percentetc etc ) is getting the best of me.

At any rate. Stay safe/alert.

Are these pretty much all in the south east?

This is from last month in my area.
http://fox17online.com/2017/09...n-into-over-weekend/
Three stores hit and only the newest one lost guns. I would expect they would have had the latest in theft prevention.

They have video but I've not seen any release.

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Originally posted by dsiets:
This is from last month in my area.
http://fox17online.com/2017/09...n-into-over-weekend/
Three stores hit and only the newest one lost guns. I would expect they would have had the latest in theft prevention.

They have video but I've not seen any release.

All the gun stores around here put all their guns in safes at night. Then about 6 years ago a couple from Virginia bought one of the local shops. They installed better doors and windows, new alarm, and security cameras. They told me the ATF checked and approved the premisis as a part of the FFL approval process. I don't believe they are gun people or ever owned a retail store before. They left guns on the walls and in the counter display cases at night. About a year later, thieves cut a hole in the roof of the store next to the gun store, part of the same strip mall, and then through the wall. The store next door didn't have an alarm, camera system, fancy door locks, etc. I believe they got around 70 gums.

The shop has since been moved to a stand alone building.

We've had a good number of these in the Denver area.

Just had one recently here

In 2016, we had several in the Houston area as well. The most memorable was in this video:

Link to original video: https://youtu.be/Txb31Z2kRbA

As the video said, the ATF nabbed 2 of the robbers. In May, the 2 turds were sentenced to 46 months and 57 months, and both got 3 years probation after release.

The gun store in my city gets hit regularly. They busted a wall out, they went in through the roof by moving the a/c and using a garden hose to climb down, they ran a stolen pickup through the front, etc.

The owner finally put up car blockers around the whole building and they started locking all the guns up at night. It hasn't been hit since.

Earlier this month, two cities over, an elderly couple who kept guns in their house got hit. One of the perps told them it's too hard to get them from gun stores now and they should thank a family member for telling them they have all the guns in the house. I think they got about 70 guns.

Most of the gun shops I frequent either have very impressive security or secure their weapons in safes at night.

Any unguarded shop that does not secure their weapons in a floor bolted safe or heavily secured room (essentially a safe in and of itself) is owned by fools. I know of no shop that has been even broken into that follows this practice.

We recently have had multiple gun store break-ins in the Central Texas area. None of the stores hit had what I consider adequate measures in place, and were essentially "storing guns behind glass." The stores that are serious about securing their stock don't seem to get targeted at all.

We had one locally maybe 15 years back. A couple of druggies used an old Caddy to pull the grill off the front of the store. They were caught when the cop got suspicious of a hoopty dragging the grill down the road. One guy tried to break into Bud's, but didn't make it thru the first door.

One of our local gun stores was burgled twice within 2 months this summer (mid-June and mid-August). They're a brand new store, and they're located in one of those cheap prefab metal buildings.

The first burglar tore off part of the sheet metal wall out back, then busted through the interior insulation/drywall. He stole around 30 guns.

The second group of burglars simply smashed a window on the front and climbed in. They stole around 20 guns.

In both instances, the stolen guns were just sitting out in racks and glass cases. The store does have safes, but they were either already full or the employees were just too lazy to pack all the guns up at night.

Luckily, in both cases, the criminals were caught relatively quickly, and the guns recovered. But c'mon... Leaving dozens of guns sitting out in a prefab metal building (basically a large shed) with large unreinforced windows is just dumb. Especially if you've already been burgled recently.

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The gun store in my city gets hit regularly. They busted a wall out, they went in through the roof by moving the a/c and using a garden hose to climb down, they ran a stolen pickup through the front, etc.

Kinda makes you wonder if it's worth it to stay in business for some of them....

The margins must be pretty thin, with the availability you can fine online at low prices.

At least it was a burglary, not a robbery with the employee(s) present. I've told the story before of the little one-man gun shop. One day somebody robbed the place, took him in the back room, knocked him over the head and left him tied up. He was lucky not to have been killed. He never came back; the place closed down and another tenant eventually moved in.

You really don't want to try to rob a gunstore in this town.

Had one here robbed just a little over a year ago. Thieves used a stolen minivan to drive through the front door at 3AM. Whole thing took around 1 minute to take 43 firearms. And this shop isn't in the middle of nowhere - it's on the main street less than a mile from downtown and the police station.

Smash n grab

NC teens charged in Simpsonville gun store robbery


SIMPSONVILLE, S.C. (WSPA) — Two Charlotte teens have been charged for their roles in a smash-and-grab at an Upstate gun store.

Sahier Lavon Richardson and Juran Maghi Witherspoon, both 18, were indicted Thursday for their roles in the break-in and theft of firearms from the Gun Shop in Simpsonville, according to the office of U.S. Attorney Beth Drake.

A federal grand jury indicted the teens for stealing firearms from the store on October 13, 2016.

Richardson and Witherspoon have been in jail without bond since their arrest on federal warrants in early November for the offense.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) with the assistance of the Simpsonville Police Department, Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department and the Lincoln County (North Carolina) Sheriff’s Department investigated the incident.

The case has been assigned to Assistant United States Attorney Lance Crick of the Greenville office for prosecution.

I know of a couple other shops in the KC metro that have been hit, one got hit three times within a year or so. Thankfully I don't worry about it too much as the exterior walls for our place are 18" steel reinforced concrete, and theres only one direction you have any distance to build up speed among other things that make us unappealing to anybody but the insane.

Had one here in Columbus (Gun Envy) broken into last week. Several weapons taken. In and out in @ five minutes

Several in the DFW area have been hit over the past year. The ATF sent a letter of concern to us dealers a while back. Told us to make sure cameras, windows and roofs were secure. I think somethings up, at least a coordinated group.