Huge Gun Shop Theft Bust

[Indyvet]

Just read this on the star's web site. Had not heard anything about this butyou would think it would have made the news. This guy gets busted with 500 guns 70k rounds of ammo and 100k in cash stolen from a gunshop in the Indy area???? If I read the story correctly. This is nuts.
Man arrested in gun-store thefts | The Indianapolis Star | indystar.com

 

[9mmfan]

Nothing up here.

 

[Indyvet]

Ssays it is a shop in the Indy area but they declined to say which one. They kept that under wraps really well. I know it was not my shop. That would have shut me down unless you wanted accessories. Also it was only 30k rounds of ammo. Had to be a decent size shop if they are missing 500 guns and no one noticed.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

When you say "nuts" do you mean unbelieavable or do you mean unusual?

 

[indyk]

err

I bet this was the guy who did Pops and wasn't there a west side shop that was burglarized?

 

[Indyvet]

When you say "nuts" do you mean unbelieavable or do you mean unusual?

Actually both. Not to mention crazy. How do you get 500 guns stolen out of a shop and it does not make the news.

 

[Indyvet]

I bet this was the guy who did Pops and that west side shop.

Last time pops got hit was last summer wasn't it? Those guys got away with a handful of what looked like cobra boxes. They surely did not get out of there with 500 guns and ammo. It says it was a three week investigation which means it happened recently, everybody did a good job of keeping it quite.

 

[indykid]

Probably part of ATF's fast and delirious program to see how long it would take a gun store owner to notice he had a couple of things missing from his shop!

 

[STEEL CORE]

Shoot "KID" I was about to call you when I read the article again, I thought it said Indy Area Gun Owner, not Indy Area Gun Shop!

 

[Hotdoger]

Shoot "KID" I was about to call you when I read the article again, I thought it said Indy Area Gun Owner, not Indy Area Gun Shop!

This story states shop. Read the comments too. Quite intresting:

IMPD Seize 500 Stolen Guns, $100K From East Side Home - Indiana News Story - WRTV Indianapolis

 

[gunman41mag]

Maybe those guns were going to MEXICO

 

[sidewinder27]

I bet this was the guy who did Pops and wasn't there a west side shop that was burglarized?

Liberty Guns in Avon was broken into a year or two ago. I was in there the next day or two and bought a gun and they said all they got were a few cheap used shotguns. The guy said the cops got there so quick they didnt have time to get much before they were hearing sirens. I dont think they ever cought them.

Also like the comments on the new story the numbers arent adding up. This couldnt have come from one store and would have had to been over a lot years.

 

[Stschil]

After reading the comments on the second link, it seems that the accused was the trusted manager of a gun shop and that the owner was ill and he took them over a period of four years.
One of the commentors (Mindach) seems to be LEO and stated once "I was there"

So, this doesn't seem to have been a break in. More of an inside job. I would hazard a guess that the 500 guns that have been seized weren't all stolen from the shop. Most probably were legally purchased, but the media would never let facts get in the way of a good story.
Not to say this guy doesn't deserve to be hung out to dry if found guilty.

Still, I wonder what shop he worked for.

 

[target64]

That person did not work for Fort Liberty Firearms.

 

[04DarkShadowGT]

They said 500 guns and 30,000 rounds of ammo was valued at 2 million?

Lets make this math easy, he had 100K cash, so 1.9 million left. 30K rounds of ammo at $2 a pop (spendy), thats 1.84 million left. 1.84 million divided by 500 = $3,680 per gun.

Some expensive guns and ammo.

 

[chickenman]

They said 500 guns and 30,000 rounds of ammo was valued at 2 million?

Lets make this math easy, he had 100K cash, so 1.9 million left. 30K rounds of ammo at $2 a pop (spendy), thats 1.84 million left. 1.84 million divided by 500 = $3,680 per gun.

Some expensive guns and ammo.

Lol.

 

[pudly]

Must have included one or two of these:

VO Guns Debuts the Falcon, World's Most Expensive Rifle, for $820,000

 

[mms]

They said 500 guns and 30,000 rounds of ammo was valued at 2 million?

Lets make this math easy, he had 100K cash, so 1.9 million left. 30K rounds of ammo at $2 a pop (spendy), thats 1.84 million left. 1.84 million divided by 500 = $3,680 per gun.

Some expensive guns and ammo.

must be using don's prices as their source..........

 

[Kingpin]

Maybe this is where all of the missing guns from Ludco went...

 

[pinshooter45]

No body in the media or politics can do simple math, why do you think we have the curent budget mess in Washington. The pictrure showed only a trunk full of guns, which might be only a fraction of what they recovered. Seems like I remember the guys at Pop's complaining about being broken into on almost a regular basis. Maybe that's why their selection was thin the last time I was there, Saw a 98K in the mix, maybe it was Wannamaker guns. We'll find out at some point probly.