Utah Bob #35998 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 400 of em. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/over-400-guns-stolen-from-tenn-ups-facility/ar-BBNPp9j?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=mailsignout Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Almost sounds like UPS holds all firearms in a single location within that facility. It also sounds like their security sucks. How convenient for the dirtbags. I wonder how this will affect law abiding gun owners shipping their guns? You know we always take it in the shorts when dirtbags commit crimes... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Clark Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 They had prior knowledge. Can we say "inside job" ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Had to be a manufacturer shipping to distributor or some thing like that to small for a trucking company but big. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tascosa, SASS# 24838 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 27 minutes ago, Captain Clark said: They had prior knowledge. Can we say "inside job" ?? Yeah we can Captain, I don't think it would take a genius to figure that out. I'd love to be a fly on the wall when they question the UPS workers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyesa Horg Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 How did they know which packages had guns? I know i don't put any indication on the outside of the box! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Don't really take a genius to guess that a package five foot long, six inches wide and two inches thick has a rifle or shotgun in it. As for pistols, since they MUST GO NEXT DAY AIR, to prevent UPS employees from stealing them, they wrer probably in a big clump, with a sign - MAKE SURE THESE PISTOLS GET ON THE PLANE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 And here in Canada, as a compromise, some geniuses want us to store our guns in a central location or at the range. One stop shopping for thugs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Could it be 400 automatic weapons going to an agency or a prison? That should call in all the ATF agents in the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted October 2, 2018 Author Share Posted October 2, 2018 48 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said: How did they know which packages had guns? I know i don't put any indication on the outside of the box! We don’t, but manufacturers do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 1 hour ago, Tascosa, SASS# 24838 said: Yeah we can Captain, I don't think it would take a genius to figure that out. I'd love to be a fly on the wall when they question the UPS workers. It appears UPS doesn't know who these two people are, so they apparently are not employees. But how they managed to show up at a UPS warehouse in a U-Haul truck instead of a UPS one and not raise any eyebrows is what's strange. I'm guessing the two perps aren't UPS employees but they were let in by someone who was. By the way I like this quote from the article: Quote ATF Special Agent in Charge Marcus Watson added: “ATF’s Crime Gun Intelligence will leverage investigative resources combined with the community partnerships to solve this violent criminal act.” I guess when guns are abducted against their will it becomes a violent criminal act? Sort of like how "gun safety" laws are meant to protect guns? And how "gun violence" is violence directed towards guns? . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muley Gil SASS # 57795 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Some times, UPS and FedEx have to lease rental trucks when the marked trucks are in the shop. I've had packages delivered that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 SORRY UB-Didn't see your post when I did mine. Ups and FedX keep guns in a secured 'Bond' room with restricted access. The pkg address is easy to check with via the BATFE, FFL data base. OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 I suppose my new guns aren’t arriving today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Being it's Tn. Wonder how many Barrett .50BMG rifles were in that shipment? OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 With any luck the thieves will break open the boxes in another warehouse somewhere and find nothing but Chipmunk .22 single-shot rifles... in pink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Legal American gun owners are targets just as well. https://www.businessinsider.com/criminals-steal-guns-from-legal-gun-owners-2017-11 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 7 minutes ago, Father Kit Cool Gun Garth said: Legal American gun owners are targets just as well. https://www.businessinsider.com/criminals-steal-guns-from-legal-gun-owners-2017-11 Why a top quality safe, is so important. OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
One Eyed Sam Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 full story at linkshttps://wgntv.com/20...spect-at-large/MIDLOTHIAN, Ill. Hundreds of guns stolen from a UPS distribution center in Memphis, Tenn., have been recovered in south suburban Midlothian.They were found inside a U-Haul truck outside of a Walmart store. About 400 guns were taken, according to the Associated Press.Traveyn Turnbo is facing charges, and authorities are still looking for 24-year-old Roland Jackson of Chicago.The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives released a photo of the suspects, but did not specify which person is the suspect at large.A reward of up to $5,000 is being offered for information leading to the apprehension of Jackson.http://www.chicagotr...1003-story.html...The guns nearly 370 .22 and .380 caliber firearms had been stolen Sunday from a United Parcel Service distribution center in Memphis and were part of a shipment that was headed to Dallas, ......The guns were part of a larger shipment from the Ruger factory in North Carolina held at the UPS distribution hub,... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 I smell a serious lapse of security at that UPS warehouse. For two common street thugs to just wander in with a U-Haul and load upwards of 400 handguns without being stopped by someone is pretty pathetic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted October 2, 2018 Author Share Posted October 2, 2018 18 minutes ago, Sixgun Sheridan said: I smell a serious lapse of security at that UPS warehouse. For two common street thugs to just wander in with a U-Haul and load upwards of 400 handguns without being stopped by someone is pretty pathetic. We don’t know if they were common or not. Could have been the equivalent of thug geniuses..... except for the part where they parked it in the Walmart parking lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 20 minutes ago, Sixgun Sheridan said: I smell a serious lapse of security at that UPS warehouse. For two common street thugs to just wander in with a U-Haul and load upwards of 400 handguns without being stopped by someone is pretty pathetic. I'll bet you all the Whisky UB has, that it was an 'inside-job'. How else would they know?......... OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 Kinda generous with UB’s whisky? Yeah and getting into the UPS vault. All kinds of ways of knowing that Roger shipped stuff, but they aren’t bright enough, if they were they would have picked something like 9mm or at least semi autos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Smoky Pistols Posted October 2, 2018 Share Posted October 2, 2018 4 hours ago, Sixgun Sheridan said: With any luck the thieves will break open the boxes in another warehouse somewhere and find nothing but Chipmunk .22 single-shot rifles... in pink. I think that's close enough to call a winner! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Original Lumpy Gritz Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 1 hour ago, Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 said: Kinda generous with UB’s whisky? YUP Being it was a large shipment from Ruger. Wonder it it might have had any GPS tracking devices hidden for just this reason? OLG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 5 hours ago, Sixgun Sheridan said: and find nothing but Chipmunk .22 single-shot rifles... in pink. My grandgirl wants to know your problem with single-shot pink 22s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 I believe they have found the guys and the guns already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted October 3, 2018 Author Share Posted October 3, 2018 7 hours ago, Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619 said: I believe they have found the guys and the guns already. Yeah. One Eyed Sam posted details above. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted October 3, 2018 Share Posted October 3, 2018 PS: the guns were found 30 minutes from Chicago Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 Oh! I see. Wasn't there a gun ban in Chicago? See!! It worked!! They weren't brought into the city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 Kudos to the ATF!...did I just say that? https://www.guns.com/2018/10/03/update-guns-stolen-from-memphis-ups-recovered-in-chicago/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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