Check your rental agreement, firearms may be prohibited. Those storage unit places can have strict terms.
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Check your rental agreement, firearms may be prohibited. Those storage unit places can have strict terms.
Well, maybe your NRA membership firearm insurance will cover some of the loss.
Theft is theft. "Agreements" and "terms" don't justify theft of firearms.Originally Posted by battlemidget
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It's all shits and giggles until someone giggles and shits.....
Shouldn't affect the homeowners insurance though.
Really ? Firearms left in a storage unit........ And you haven’t checked on them for almost 3 months ? What the hell is wrong with you ? (Read this and imagine a very good Foghorn Leghorn imitation.)
I’m Sorry, but someone had to say it.
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Cops came, I gave them the list of make/model/serial/description along with the pictures of some of the weird ones and right off the bat, I got the feeling the cop suspected me of something. He didn't even look at the pictures, just shoved them back to me, then started by asking me questions about how I knew the guns were missing. "Because they aren't there?" When did I learn they were missing? "Yesterday, when I opened the door to my storage unit." Why didn't I call yesterday? "I did call and your communications person told me to call back when the storage company office was open." How did I have such a complete list of what's missing if it's gone? "Because I know what I own and I laid eyes on all the others." Then we went in to talk with the on-site manager.
The manager was surprisingly helpful and forthcoming. He took my unit number, pulled up a map showing where all the cameras are (sadly, not on my aisle) and showed that there are cameras over the exterior doors to get people coming and going. He pulled up the last several times that my exterior code was used at the keypad and they were all me, so Mr. Burglar got in by some means other than using my keypad code. There is no interior sensor to tell when my unit door was open, so we're left with a ~10-week window between the last time I was in there with the guns and the day I saw they were missing. Then the manager tells us that the tubular locks they use had been state of the art a few years ago, but as of about a year ago, folks figured out how to pick them. The interesting thing is that when picking the tubular locks, it breaks something internally and that lock will never work again ... and yet, I was able to unlock and relock my unit just fine, so that's strange. I ask about the policy I learned about when starting the rent a few years ago, that they only allow their locks on their units. Well, apparently that went out the door and new renters are allowed using whatever locks they want - the company just never told those of us who already had stuff there. Bastards.
Then we all go to my unit. I unlock it just fine, walk the cops through the three things I know were touched, and show the manager how the lock still works with my key while cops take pictures. The manager is kind of bummed because now he'll have to tell the owner that there seems to be a new lock picking technique out there. Cops tell me they aren't going to fingerprint anything because fingerprints only lift off of certain surfaces (glass and some metals) not the boxes that I can tell have been opened or disturbed. I close up the unit, re-lock it, and we leave. Outside, the cop wants me to add the color, caliber, and estimated price of each of the pieces that were stolen. I guesstimate prices and fill out the rest while he calls in for a case number. He hands me a card with the case number on it and I ask if I need any other interaction with him/PD if I decide to file with insurance. Nope. What if I decide that I don't want to pursue insurance, do I need to close the loop with you guys for that? That seemed to confuse the cop, who started offering all sorts of ways to back out of this. Did I want to report it at all now? Did I not want a case opened? No, I still want all those things, don't you guys keep track of crime statistics? I just don't know if raising my insurance premiums will be worth it for a relatively low value of guns. So no, I don't have to tell them anything about insurance whether I claim it as a loss or not. He asks who else has a key. My wife does. He hates to ask, but could she have taken them? No, she's been to the unit, but she hasn't used the car, probably doesn't know where the unit is, and if she wanted money, there's lots of pricier things for her to sell. Then the cop made some comment about "best case" my guns get used in a crime, is the only way I'm likely to get them back. Can't say that crime is really a best case scenario for anyone involved, but yeah, that is one way of getting them back, I guess. Just weird.
Then we go our own ways. I hit up Home Depot, get a couple real padlocks and lock my own unit with them in addition to the tubular lock that they require. The end. Thanks for all your advice along the way.
Bummer nothing was caught on camera.
Tubular locks have never really been "state of the art", the picks just got cheaper.
That’s how it always works out. I swear with my job , very time I need something on camera it’s always just off. It’s freaky.
It's how my dash cam works too.
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