Well... Crap.

[Irving]

Which storage place so we can avoid. Make sure you leave a bad yelp review if the storage facility isn't forth coming with video footage.

[MrWhiteRabbit]

No... You're doing it right. Get all the info you can, especially serial numbers and makes/models. That way the officers burglary report will contain all that and the info can immediately be entered in CCIC/NCIC databases. Without that info entered it will be more difficult to identify your guns even if they're recovered. And don't worry about any hassle from the cops. Frankly, it'll be just another burglary report they'll forward to the detective division. From what you're saying it sounds like someone knew those guns were there. Do you have kids that might've inadvertently been in the storage unit with their "friends" or anything like that?

I called non-emergency for Denver (where I live), they told me to call non-emergency Aurora (where the guns were stolen from). We're meeting at the storage unit in the morning and they'll see what they can do to review tape, etc.

I've already printed out a list of make/model/serial/description (one was a custom-engraved 1911 that will be easy to spot if it ever gets picked up).

No kids. I'm the only one who went to pick stuff up in the last year or so. My specific unit is nestled pretty far back in the center of the building and nobody paid special attention whenever I was there with the door open and it was closed/locked whenever I needed to make multiple trips out to the car and back. Not like there were any chatty cathys coming by to socialize. There is open air space at the top of the units so if someone got on a ladder in an adjacent unit and looked over to mine, they could see piles of boxes, but they'd be hard-pressed to know which containers had guns in them from that viewing angle.

[MrWhiteRabbit]

Indoors, climate-controlled. I'm thinking this was targeted somehow (but I'll know more after talking to the office when they open in the morning). Mine is just a random door, in a long line of random doors, down one hallway of several hallways on that floor, of a multi-floor building. And to the best of my knowledge, the only thing they took was guns.

[MrWhiteRabbit]

The "shitstorm" question is because I have to be very careful with some of my stuff because various jurisdictions don't like certain features of guns. Nothing NFA or truly high-dollar was in the unit, but some places don't like pistol grips, semi-auto 12ga, etc.

[MrWhiteRabbit]

Yeah, the dollar amount here isn't very high (under $10k, I'd estimate) but it included the BB gun my grandfather used to teach me how to shoot, a replica of what I was shot at in a warzone not too long ago, etc. The danger to society is real, though (1911, AR, a couple 12ga, etc.)

[MrWhiteRabbit]

I'll refrain from naming the company for now, but it's a big chain of indoor storage units. Let's see how they handle my news and cops in the morning before I name and shame.

[Lurch]

So someone can look into your unit from the one next to it? What keeps people from climbing over and taking stuff?

[MrWhiteRabbit]

It's a series of roughly 3" by 18" slats that are missing in a repeating pattern around the ceiling for air flow.

[Great-Kazoo]

The "shitstorm" question is because I have to be very careful with some of my stuff because various jurisdictions don't like certain features of guns. Nothing NFA or truly high-dollar was in the unit, but some places don't like pistol grips, semi-auto 12ga, etc.

AFAIK: There's still no restrictions in CO for what you own, yet.

On aside not i sure as hell would not be securing any nfa items with anything other than. A nice safe, in the same place i was living. If i owned any nfa items, of course.

[.455_Hunter]

Using your own cell network based alarm system is probably necessary in storage units. Even a game camera that sends text pictures to your phone can provide a realtime alert of intrusion.