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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — About 400 guns have been stolen from a United Parcel Service facility in Memphis, Tennessee, and authorities are concerned about the theft’s potential effect on public safety in this city and elsewhere.

Deputies estimate that they've seized between 7,000 and 10,000 stolen guns from a house and warehouse near Pageland. Deputies have arrested Brent Nicholson in connection to the stolen goods. Chesterfield County Sheriff Jay Brooks says the seized guns, ammunition, and hundreds of other items were all found on a single property off of Highway 9 outside of Pageland city limits. Brooks says the guns alone filled one tractor trailer and ammunition filled another. Nicholson was arrested and charged with trafficking opium and heroin, earlier in the week in Union County. Deputies reportedly went to serve him with a subpoena Friday...

Chesterfield County sheriff's deputies arrested Brent Nicholson, 51, of Pageland Saturday. The guns were found stacked in his house, a nearby storage building, a liquor store he runs with his father and at his parents' home, The Charlotte Observer in North Carolina reported. “There were so many guns we quit counting after a while,” Sheriff Jay Brooks said. "This investigation is far from over." Besides the guns, authorities also found crossbows, ammunition, taxidermed animal heads and scores of chainsaws. The sheriff said it didn't appear Nicholson was accumulating weapons, not selling them.

CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, S.C. (WBTV) —Deputies estimate that they've seized between 7,000 and 10,000 stolen guns from a house and warehouse near Pageland. Deputies have arrested Brent Nicholson in connection with the stolen goods. Chesterfield County Sheriff Jay Brooks said the seized guns, ammunition and hundreds of other items were all found on a single property off Highway 9 outside Pageland city limits. Brooks said the guns alone filled one tractor-trailer and ammunition filled another. Nicholson has been arrested and charged with trafficking opium and heroin earlier in the week in Union County. Deputies reportedly went to serve him with a...

In a recent article discussing how many firearms are lost or destroyed each year, one of the commenters suggested that loss through theft, recovery and subsequent destruction by police, could be a significant number.  At TTAG, JSF001 speculated:  You forgot to include firearms seized by police as evidence and than destroyed. I would guess that 80% of all firearms that are stolen wind up being destroyed within 10-20 years. There are a couple of fairly good sources of data for the numbers of firearms stolen. The first is the National Crime Information Center, or NCIC.  The FBI started the...

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For Immediate Release: February 15, 2007 BELLEVUE, WA – The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms today called on New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his colleagues in the “Mayors Against Illegal Guns” coalition to devote all their resources to closing the government gun loophole. The Washington Post this week revealed that between February 2002 and September 2005, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported 160 missing firearms. That is in addition to the 352 missing guns the FBI reported lost or stolen in a similar audit in 2002. The newspaper reported that at least 18 of...

METAIRIE -- The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office identified one of the men responsible for stealing more than hundred guns from a sporting goods shop on New Year’s Day. Deputies said Saturday they wanted the public’s help in locating the suspect, 28-year-old Jermaine Surtain, who’s wanted on burglary charges. According to authorities, Surtain and possibly three other suspects broke into Puglia's Sporting Goods store on Veterans Boulevard and stole 115 assorted make, model and caliber handguns, along with four shotguns and two assault rifles. Throughout the course of the investigation, sheriff’s deputies were able to retrieve one of the stolen guns,...