Westminster arms gets robbed

[Irving]

They said no NFA items or customer's firearms stolen.

[brutal]

Is there any chance the silencers that they kept in the glass case was left out the night they were hit?

https://www.ar-15.co/threads/162322-...=1#post2063985

[Great-Kazoo]

Is there any chance the silencers that they kept in the glass case was left out the night they were hit?

You didn't read the owners statement, of course not. That's why i linked if from the NFA section where you asked the same question.

[jhood001]

Boiled down, guns aren't really any different than any other retail item. Dealerships don't lock up cars. Actually, I can't really think of any retailer that takes any precautions with their indoor products beyond locking the doors.

Cars don't kill people, Stu. Moot point.

Hmmm, Google tells me cars kill more people than firearms do.

Carry on.

[DOC]

You didn't read the owners statement, of course not. That's why i linked if from the NFA section where you asked the same question.

Doesn't mean it didn't happen. If they kept the guns out in the cases and on the floor and lost around 300 of them. That was about all that I've seen in there maybe less. It will come out later if it did. They might be in deep doodoo with the ATF right now for it and don't want to broadcast it to the world. The guy or guys that did it are going to be in even deeper shit when they get caught. Good. I hope they resist arrest too.

[ZERO THEORY]

I remember seeing a comment in an earlier discussion about gun shops and after hours storage where the point was made that moving guns back and forth every morning and night risks damage to firearms, especially those with expensive wood stocks, and if break-ins are rare enough the cost trade-off says to leave the guns in place.

That theory could be changing.

That is a very realistic issue. But at the end of the day, we'd rather deal with the headache of having the 'smith clean up a scratch, or offering a discount than the alternative. It's not worth the guilt of knowing that something could be stolen and used to kill an innocent high schooler in a drive-by, or used on a proprietor in a strong-arm robbery.