12,000 Guns Stolen from Stores Over Past 2 Years

[billh58]

A masked thief smashed through the glass door of GTX Guns in Georgetown, Texas early in the morning of May 9. In just 7 seconds he was off with an armful of guns.

This past April in Hampton, Virginia, crooks used a stolen car to crash through the front door of Treasure Chest Pawn and Gun. Several guns were gone in less than 45 seconds.

In early Mach, a dramatic smash and grab played out in Houston, where as many as 10 suspects used chains to rip the metal bars off the front of Carter’s Country gun store in Houston. More than 50 guns were stolen in less than 2 minutes.

According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), gun store burglaries are on the rise -- a 28 percent increase from 2013 to 2015, with more than 1,100 federally licensed gun dealers victimized and more than 12,000 handguns, shotguns and rifles stolen.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/12000-guns-stolen-stores-past-years/story?id=39215257

The black market for guns is a fast growing industry, and along with straw purchases provides a ready supply of increasingly more guns in our neighborhoods and on our streets. The right-wing ALEC/NRA funded "guns everywhere" fear campaign feeds the market for guns, and fuels the profits of the arms merchants who don't care if their products are stolen from dealers, because the guns have already been paid for. Besides, the more guns on the street, the more fear they can use to sell even more guns to be stolen.

Support a gun control organization of your choice and help to reduce the obscene number of guns being marketed to society for no other reason than greed and profits.

[underpants]

1. So, let's say hypothetically, the store gets to sell them at black market prices...

to the "thieves" (bonus! no background check needed) and then collects on their insurance. Or should I not be casting aspersions on the morals of pawn shop and gun store owners?

[billh58]

2. Nice try, but

your twist was neither stated nor inferred in the OP. The point is that there is a demand for guns created by the right-wing gun lobby based on an irrational fear of "boogeymen." Trump and the Tea Party use the same tactic to sell their brand of "solutions" to non-existent problems.

The right-wing uses fear to their advantage in any number of ways, and the mass distribution of guns is but one of them.

[Marengo]

3. An "irrational fear of boogeymen" drives criminals to steal guns?

Not that they are a useful tool of the trade?

[billh58]

4. I realize that reading comprehension

is not a strong suit with gunners, but the "irrational fear of boogeymen" is what causes the demand for dealers to stock so many guns. Criminals view gun dealers as a ready source of guns to steal.

Now you can run back to the Gungeon and tell all of your buddies how you really showed those grabbers a thing or two, Bubba.

[Marengo]

5. You may be on to something, as I exposed your inability to effectively communicate

Using the written word. How you expect anyone to extrapolate that point from what is then an essentially incomprehensible post is beyond me.

Oh, and what is your intent in using the word "bubba"?

[billh58]

6. Thanks for the word salad

Bubba.

[Marengo]

7. Weak, as expected. When the entirety of one's discourse consists of two dimensional...

Agitprop as yours does, I imagine it must be extremely difficult to convey anything more complex than the simple regurgitation of scripted dialogue.

You seem to have an affinity for the word "bubba". What meaning to you intend it to convey, and why wouldn't you answer this question when it was posed to you earlier?

[billh58]

8. That's okay Bubba,

we know that you're lonely and afraid. Go cuddle with your gun and you'll feel much better.

[Marengo]

9. Thanks for proving my point...

I can't imagine you intended to, but there it is. Impressive display of unoriginal thought.

[flamin lib]

10. WTF was that? Dumbest reply I've seen in a long time. nt

[Marengo]

13. I agree. Answering a charge of insipid, vacuous, two dimensional rhetoric with more of the same...

Does call that posters intellect into question.

[billh58]

14. Bubba thought that you

were agreeing with him, but he left us without saying goodbye...

[flamin lib]

11. Bill, that happens a lot. Sell illegally, declare inventory stolen and double dip. Both gun stores

(tho few thank goodness) and individuals do this.

[billh58]

12. Thanks for the info

and it doesn't surprise me.