Nothing new here. In 1980, I was managing a gun store, and we had about 250 guns stolen. After running the list through ATF, we had two that had been reported stolen.
The odd thing was that they were both traded by a close friend of mine, who I know wasn’t a thief or criminal. I asked him where he acquired the two handguns, turns out he bought them both from a policeman in a mid-sized town next county over. You can probably figure out the rest of the story.
“I asked him where he acquired the two handguns, turns out he bought them both from a policeman in a mid-sized town next county over. You can probably figure out the rest of the story.”
Let me spin it. Guns are stolen and someone reports it. Sometime later cops confiscate some guns off some perp. Rather than run those guns to find out where they came from, a cop makes a fast buck by selling them on the side.