Mob smashes into Tampa gun store, steals weapons & ammo

Fox News 13 ^ | 11/29/2016 | By: Aaron Mesmer, FOX 13 News

[Lazamataz]

TAMPA (FOX 13) - A mob of brazen burglars stole dozens of weapons from a Tampa gun shop Tuesday morning, after breaking in by driving through the front of the store. Surveillance cameras inside Tampa Arms Co. recorded the crime at about 3 a.m. The video shows a truck driving into the front of the business and, moments later, a swarm of thieves -- wearing masks and dressed alike -- running into the store, stealing about 40 weapons and taking off.

"It seemed to be well-calculated," said Richard Smith, the store's owner, adding he got a call notifying him of the burglary a couple hours later. "He said that they cleaned you out. So I said that I'm on my way." Smith said the majority of the weapons he had out were handguns, shotguns and rifles.

[Lazamataz]

Why yes, it was a swarm of feral Amish.

Why do you ask?

[Doogle]

...had to add keyword

[WayneS]

Muslim America stocking up?

[DNME]

This kind of robbery presents quite a puzzle for security.

[exnavy]

Things that make you say... hmmmmm.

[Lazamataz]

Nope. Amish.

[mythenjoseph]

One gun that’s not supposed to be there...unsettling ? I would questioning the codes for a mini armory , I mean it’s not a wig and extension store?

[Lazamataz]

Nah, you just gotta put those steel posts in front of your shop. The truck-stoppin’ kind.

[Liberty Valance]

Squat That Rabbit - Taj Mahal

[iowamark]

A very well planned crime.

[meyer]

Steel posts are a must any more. This method has been used successfully in the recent past. Use the vehicle as a battering ram.

[raybbr]

Hah! You are making assumptions based on face color. It could be whites in blackface adding insult to injury. Sort of like voter fraud.

[tuffydoodle]

Aren’t gun stores supposed to put the inventory in safes for the night? There was a gun store robbery in Texas recently but the thieves came away empty-handed, since the store owner put all guns in safes before closing for the night.

[Yo-Yo]

Should they? Probably, if their inventory is small enough that there are enough hours in a day to put them away and trot them out daily.

Suppose to? No, there is no law mandating it.

[Lazamataz]

You would think they would ‘safe them up’, wouldn’t you?

[aces]

obamma mamba jamma lenin khomeini has already armed the muzzies and imported their armies

[tuffydoodle]

If they don’t have time and space to lock them up, you get robberies. Which one is harder to deal with? I guess the gun shop owners have to make that decision.

[orinoco]

The guns can be placed on display racks on wheels and rolled into a safe at closing then rolled out when opening.

[Candor7]

The problem is that 40 firearms in the hands of leftist revolutionaries will start a small range war in the streets of Tampa.

We will wait and see.Maybe the Obama community organizer is about to bring Arab Spring to the streets of America.Alinsky would be proud of him.

I guess that’s what feral Amish do.

If I lived in Florida I would be keeping my powder dry, a pistol in my glove box, 1 shot gun, 1 long gun and 1000 rounds in my trunk until at least the end of January 2017, at the ready.

Tampa is about to become a target rich environment.

[Lazamataz]

I’m thinkin’ this is more a standard (if well-planned) robbery.