Was it a load of SKS that they have to sell at or near cost. (IF they can find buyers)?
Thieves knew just which car to rob?
Insurance “lightning?”
No problems selling SKS rifles that I know of. They seem to sell will at a profit.
***Thieves knew just which car to rob?***
This has been going on for many years. Back around 1968, gun companies shipping by rail were required to label the packages in red letters, FIREARMS.
It was said that the conductors would wait till they were passing a certain crossing and toss the boxes labeled FIREARMS to waiting cars.
Back about 1971 or 72, Mike Wallace did a 60 MINUTES interview with some getto kids who were robbing boxcars. They said the last breakin was a load of meat, but the best haul they ever made was...GUNS.
In the 1970s Skeeter Skelton, the handgun editor for SHOOTING TIMES, sent an engraved Browning pistol to Peoria, Ill, for photographing. It never arrived.
In 1968, I ordered a handgun from Walter H Graig in Selma Alabama. It did arrive by railway express, and it had the tape labeled in big letters FIREARMS. I figure the conductor knew it was a junk gun and let it pass. The shipping cost as much as the handgun.