Every Gun Store Owners Nightmare

[runco]

Sickening, and warning if you take meds for high blood presssure:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-fz249C2CM

 

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c55_1456950696

 

 

[runco]

And as a follow up:

 

http://www.khou.com/story/news/crime/2016/03/02/cameras-capture-crooks-breaking-into-gun-store/81229984/

 

HARRIS COUNTY, Texas – Houston police and ATF agents arrested multiple people and recovered several firearms stolen from Carter's Country Guns & Ammo.

New surveillance video was released Wednesday afternoon showing a gang of ten men busting into a gun store in southwest Houston.

The men, who are still on the run, smashed open cases with a hammer and ransacked the place, filling bags with guns and ammo. The whole thing only took a little more than 2 minutes.

The surveillance videos begin just after 4:30 a.m. Tuesday. Ten suspects, using hoodies masks and gloves to conceal their identities, break the front doors of Carter’s Country gun store on Wilcrest near Southwest Freeway. Less than 30 seconds later one of them uses a pickup with chains to pull the security bars right off, and the others rush in.

KHOU

HPD: Guns stolen in smash and grab at Carter's Country

Video shows the suspects smashing the glass cases with hammers and jumping over the counter, grabbing long rifles by the armful and throwing handguns and ammo into bags. Just over a minute after running into the store, they run out and are gone. Police say the suspects switched vehicles about a block away and sped off in a Chevy SUV.

The ATF, who is investigating the case alongside Houston police, told KHOU on Tuesday that smash and grabs like this one are on the rise around Houston. Thieves often sell the guns to other criminal groups for a profit, and they’re often used in other, more violent crimes.

Edited March 3, 2016 by runco

[DaveTN]

They were caught pretty quick.

[zybysco]

That is pretty well organized. I would be impressed if I wasn't so disgusted.

[Omega]

Looks like gun stores need to have a civilian based Joint–Services Interior Intrusion Detection System (J–SIIDS) enabled safe, but that would require developing a ready reaction task force since incidents like these are quick, 2 minutes for this one.

 

This story is contradicting itself; in one sentence it says multiple arrests, then follows up with still on the loose.  Good help is hard to find nowadays.

[surfabilly]

this story can't be true.

the news tells me criminals get their guns through a loophole in the gun show laws, or order them on the internet without a background check.

[krunchnik]

Looks to me like we should enact a safe hammer law outlawing any hammer over 1ounce-after all no one needs these assault hammers

[Dustbuster]

Looks like they knew exactly what to get AND as usual, some dumbass decided to NOT mount any cameras at eye level so they could possibly get a better ID shot.... In the event of such an emergency..... Happy hunting. This must be the guns show loophole....

[BigK]

Looks to me like we should enact a safe hammer law outlawing any hammer over 1ounce-after all no one needs these assault hammers

 

...and don't forget, restrictions on vehicles strong enough to pull down bars..no one needs assault vehicles

[Capbyrd]

This story is contradicting itself; in one sentence it says multiple arrests, then follows up with still on the loose.  Good help is hard to find nowadays.

 

 

 

Ten perps.  Multiple (more than one) arrests means at least 8 people could still be on the loose.  Doesn't sound contradictory to me.  

[RED333]

If the glass in the display cases were 1/2 Plexiglas the hammer would just bounce off.

Humm, I have a idea

[btq96r]

I'm gonna guess those guys did a recon of the store a few times, and rehearsed the mechanics of the entry smash couple of times as well.  If they had furthered their plans after that any, they might well still be on the run and have offloaded those guns by now.