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One of our local gun stores was last hit last night or this morning....Fowler Gun Room in Orange...Looks like they backed a car into the gates and ripped off the place....Rifles and hands guns....Not sure how bad...I have threw the years have done much much trade with them...This is getting way to close to home....

 

Texas Lizard

 

They are near a freeway  entrance....Good hit and run....

 

There was 8 kids involved, so I was told...Ranging in age 18 to 23...As of now there was 7 out of 8 in jail....What happens next will be the interesting part....Serve time or walk....

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7 minutes ago, Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001 said:

I fear this is going to happen more often most every where 

 

 locks , bars , and alarms keep honest folks honest 

 

 and it slows down the others 

 

 hope there is some videos to help ID the perps 

 

  CB 

New thing here, video 24X7....Plus you are to save that info, for I think 2 years...

 

Texas Lizard

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2 months or so ago someone drove up to a liquor store right up the street from me at 2:00 in the morning and ripped the security bars and doors off and made off with a safe and a bunch of expensive scotch and other liquor. The perps were well covered and the vehicle had the license plates removed, video wasn’t much help.

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It's happened quite a few times locally over the years, probably 3 or 4 times a year. In some of the cases, video from the weeks prior to the theft showed at least one of the suspects casing the gun store. Several of the stores had their video recorders stolen also, so there was no video. Some stores still have on-site recording (bad) and some have switched to off-site recording (good).

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In the 80’s and 90’s guys would pull up in front of a convenience store with a pickup truck. One guy would jump out pulling a steel rope cable with a loop at the end. He would drag the cable into the store and loop it around the ATM machine, run back out and jump into the truck and the driver would punch it thus ripping the ATM machine loose from it’s anchors and out through the front of the store and dragged down the road for their getaway. 
In New Mexico in the late 80’s ATMs would be installed in small block buildings for rural access. There was a team of guys that would wrap the building with heavy cables and drive off destroying the building and the cable loop would lasso the 2 ATMs and away they’d go. 
 

During the Rodney King riots in LA people were driving trucks and cars into store fronts to loot them. 
 

This crap has been around for years. 
 

A Flippant Note: the robbers of the Fowler’s Gun Room were probably sick of being price gouged…

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2 hours ago, Texas Lizard said:

One of our local gun stores was last hit last night or this morning....Fowler Gun Room in Orange...Looks like they backed a car into the gates and ripped off the place....Rifles and hands guns....Not sure how bad...I have threw the years have done much much trade with them...This is getting way to close to home....

 

Texas Lizard

 

They are near a freeway  entrance....Good hit and run....

 

I shopped at Fowler's a few times when I lived in Cali, as well as their former sister store, The Stockade, just off Beach Blvd.  My first set of holsters was hand made just down the road from there.  Unfortunately, that's the way things are going right now.

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5 hours ago, Texas Lizard said:

One of our local gun stores was last hit last night or this morning....Fowler Gun Room in Orange...Looks like they backed a car into the gates and ripped off the place....Rifles and hands guns....Not sure how bad...I have threw the years have done much much trade with them...This is getting way to close to home....

 

Texas Lizard

 

They are near a freeway  entrance....Good hit and run....

If you own a gun shop these days .

All firearms should go in a locked safe every Evening when you close shop .

Period .

 

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1 minute ago, Rooster Ron Wayne said:

If you own a gun shop these days .

All firearms should go in a locked safe every Evening when you close shop .

Period .

 

The shop I work at has several hundred guns. How do you propose we do that?

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10 minutes ago, Rooster Ron Wayne said:

If you own a gun shop these days .

All firearms should go in a locked safe every Evening when you close shop .

Period .

 

Fowler’s used to have hundreds of guns on display before Covid. I am sure that was the case when it was robbed. 

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2 hours ago, Calamity Kris said:

 

I shopped at Fowler's a few times when I lived in Cali, as well as their former sister store, The Stockade, just off Beach Blvd.  My first set of holsters was hand made just down the road from there.  Unfortunately, that's the way things are going right now.

I used to like The Stockade. I bought a few guns there but I spent a lot more on reloading supplies and accessories. 

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We have 4" steel pipes filled with concrete protecting the store walls and entrances. No normal vehicle could crash through unless it was going Warp Speed.

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5 minutes ago, DeaconKC said:

We have 4" steel pipes filled with concrete protecting the store walls and entrances. No normal vehicle could crash through unless it was going Warp Speed.

“Good morning Deacon. This is Sgt Stedanko of the Sheriff’s Office. It seems your store was stolen last night. Uh-huh, yes the entire store. You’re not gonna believe this but there were reports of a large UFO in the vicinity and a couple of drunks swear the store got…well, they said it looked like it got Beamed Up!…Hello…Hellllloooo…are you there?” ‘Click’

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Damn - Fowlers!!!!  I just bought a rifle from them.  They've never had the best prices (nor the Stockade) but they've always had a great selection of stuff.  In fact they are one of the few local stores that carry Taylor, Ubertis, etc.

 

They have all their safes up against that front wall as well - I hope the scumbags didn't get much and got caught.

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2 hours ago, Rooster Ron Wayne said:

If you own a gun shop these days .

All firearms should go in a locked safe every Evening when you close shop .

Period .

 

I probably wouldn't shop at a store that did that.  Those guns would be more beat up than a hockey puck. As an store owner, I would have concrete bollards strong enough to stop a snowplow. 

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We stopped at a gunshop that had just been hit. Lone thief entered through the back door somehow and busted into a security case like used in julery stores and stole all the "gangster" handguns he could pack into a duffel bag and back out in 3 minutes.  They had video of him coming out of a trailer park behind the store and all around inside the store.  The case was made of bullet proof glass and was supposed to be inpenrentable.  He knew how to break into it and how long he had to get in and back out. 

 

We shop at one place that have 7,000 guns on display. Owner said they have had several robbery attempts in the night. But cops were there within minutes and foiled the attempt.  

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There’s been a few robberies to gun shops around here. The ones that were broken into now have concrete barriers in front of their stores. They also have bars on the windows. 

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9 hours ago, DeaconKC said:

The shop I work at has several hundred guns. How do you propose we do that?

When the insurance company's start dropping customers because of this kind of issue. 

I bet they will figure out how to do it really fast .

 

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32 minutes ago, Injun Ryder, SASS #36201L said:

Pat - Kris - TL:

 

Remember B&B - Ain't no one breaking in there! Too bad they're gone. 

Believe it or not, the B&B in Westminster is now a Muslim Mosque. 
 

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On 7/15/2024 at 5:57 AM, Rye Miles #13621 said:

There’s been a few robberies to gun shops around here. The ones that were broken into now have concrete barriers in front of their stores. They also have bars on the windows. 

The local store went a step further, encased all handgun cases with expanded mesh and angle iron over the bullet rated glass.  All "scary" long guns are in steel display cages.   

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Notice we are all talking about robberies and not apprehensions?

Since the defunding horse sh** and Covid I think law enforcement isn’t exactly busting their butts to solve crimes. 

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31 minutes ago, Pat Riot said:

Notice we are all talking about robberies and not apprehensions?

Since the defunding horse sh** and Covid I think law enforcement isn’t exactly busting their butts to solve crimes. 

In this case, they did catch them....Along with, if info was correct about 500 guns also...They seem to have been a busy group....

 

Texas Lizard

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30 minutes ago, Texas Lizard said:

In this case, they did catch them....Along with, if info was correct about 500 guns also...They seem to have been a busy group....

 

Texas Lizard

That’s good to hear. Thank you.

 

500 from Fowler’s?

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