Posted on 10/29/2016 9:35:51 AM PDT by rktman
Hurricane Matthew provided cover for thieves to steal 229 firearms from a South Carolina retailer. The weapons haven’t yet been recovered.
(Excerpt) Read more at thetrace.org ...
> thieves to steal 229 firearms
But that’s illegal!
And who comes to mind first?
Somebody ought to pass a law———————— Oh.
Back-up battery only lasts a couple of hours.
There are commercial batteries that last up to 24hrs available.
229 guns stolen.
He should have loaded all that hardware into his car/truck and removed it from the property. My Jeep Grand Cherokee, with back seat folded down, will easily hold that number of handguns and long rifles. He knew there was a potential problem coming, and left all that hardware in place. Idiot.
Cars with mismatched plates in parking lot.
Where are the cops on that?
That, and guys casing the place, should have made him REMOVE ALL FIREARMS a day or two before the storm floods hit. He had plenty of warning. Once again, idiot.
Here are my thoughts on this. Perhaps, instead of waiting until the last minute to evacuate from there, they should have spent a day loading up all the easily heisted items - handguns and semi-auto AR/AKs to take home for safekeeping 8 miles away. Nobody had a van or pickup?
I’d like to know what that last day or two days’ open-for- business netted him in profit on sales and then ask him to compare that against what Insurance isn’t going to pay for.
To my perspective, it was a bad call.
thetrace.com = Michaael Bloomberg funded operation.
probably crowing over the theft to high heaven
My thoughts too, but you beat me to it. :0)
Yep. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.
I look once in a while just to see what lies and misrepresentations they’re ginning up. Gotta keep an eye on the enemy.
The only idiot here is you to make such assumptions with out full possession of the facts. 229 guns in boxes or out, take up a significant volume of cargo space, more than your Cherokee plus it takes a good deal of time to box and load said cargo. Time and manpower may not have been his to use.
Did you even read the article?
200 of 269 firearms were handguns. 69 were long guns. My Jeep has 44cuft cargo space in back, 2x more than enough to haul that load.
All he needed to take were the guns and paperwork from the office files. Boxes weren’t necessary in such a case.
I work p/t at a med-large gun store, with far more inventory than that.
I could load the 269 from cases and racks, in under 90mins. They knew what was coming, days ahead.
From the article:
“He and his staff stayed in the shop until the last possible moment, even after the state told residents to get out of the path of the storm. “On Wednesday, they were talking about evacuating everybody,” Huneycutt tells The Trace. “We didn’t close until Friday.””
He had staff and 2 days.
You do the math.
With staff and 2 days, they probably could have boxed-up many of the pieces, but that wasn’t necessary to getting them secured.
The firearms and the corresponding paperwork are all that count.
Idiot, indeed.
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