Gun shop burglarized multiple times

[Elsie9]

Hmmm, and why do you know so much about how to do this?

From looking at the picture of the window. I can link. I was a construction foreman, I had to roll on site and figure out how to get things done.

[Rem700]

This story made the Drudge report to!

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/11/0 ... urglaries/

42 handguns and assault rifles for a $5700 loss, Does Trails End have some really good priceing or some really cheap crappy guns?

$5700 divided by 42 firearms = appx $135.71 per firearm.

[xd ED]

This story made the Drudge report to!

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/11/0 ... urglaries/

42 handguns and assault rifles for a $5700 loss, Does Trails End have some really good priceing or some really cheap crappy guns?

$5700 divided by 42 firearms = appx $135.71 per firearm.

At those prices why bother breaking in? Just buy them...

[Snakeman721]

This story made the Drudge report to!

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/11/0 ... urglaries/

42 handguns and assault rifles for a $5700 loss, Does Trails End have some really good priceing or some really cheap crappy guns?

$5700 divided by 42 firearms = appx $135.71 per firearm.

For insurance purposes, I bet those are the wholesale prices he paid to the distributors, not the retail prices he charges.

[MasonK]

For insurance purposes, I bet those are the wholesale prices he paid to the distributors, not the retail prices he charges.

That, or they cleaned out all the Hi Points...

[IDPA Shooter]

This story made the Drudge report to!

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2012/11/0 ... urglaries/

42 handguns and assault rifles for a $5700 loss, Does Trails End have some really good priceing or some really cheap crappy guns?

$5700 divided by 42 firearms = appx $135.71 per firearm.

For insurance purposes, I bet those are the wholesale prices he paid to the distributors, not the retail prices he charges.

I'm sure the FFL's on the board would like to know which wholesalers he buys from. The mark up on most guns is quite small, generally well less than 20%.

[onebohemian]

I stopped visiting Trails End for gun related items a couple years back because the selection of guns was awful and the prices were crazy high. The crappie fishing supplies are still good to peruse though.

The main two things I don't get about this are that that window faces Hwy 65, which is pretty busy almost all hours of the day and night. The building is really not even that far off of 65. Second, how were the bars inside the windows penetrated? Whoever would have parked in front of that window on 65 could not have thought they'd have much time to do the job (especially since it was presumable the third time they had done this and would have had to expect that additional security precautions may have been implemented), and cutting through iron security bars would strike me as requirng more than seconds or minutes to accomplish alone.

[xd ED]

I stopped visiting Trails End for gun related items a couple years back because the selection of guns was awful and the prices were crazy high. The crappie fishing supplies are still good to peruse though.

The main two things I don't get about this are that that window faces Hwy 65, which is pretty busy almost all hours of the day and night. The building is really not even that far off of 65. Second, how were the bars inside the windows penetrated? Whoever would have parked in front of that window on 65 could not have thought they'd have much time to do the job (especially since it was presumable the third time they had done this and would have had to expect that additional security precautions may have been implemented), and cutting through iron security bars would strike me as requirng more than seconds or minutes to accomplish alone.

Th security bars present a bit of a curiosity.
Someone went to the trouble of installing steel bars...that were either spaced wide enough, or designed flexible enough for a person to pass through....

[xracer390]

I think I read the bars were 7 inches apart. There is no way I could go through that.

[xd ED]

From the news article linked in the OP:

The latest break-in occurred around 9 p.m. Monday at the Trail's End Bass Pro Shop on the corner of Highway 65 and Osborne Road in Fridley. Briggs says a boulder the size of a bowling ball was thrown through a plate glass window in front of the store, and then at least one person slipped through the iron security bars inside.

[Dante]

Small children?

I must assume that once they were in that they used some other way to get the guns out.

[photogpat]

Small children?

I must assume that once they were in that they used some other way to get the guns out.

Midget gun thieves.

Oh wait, thats next Season on the Discovery Channel...

[Rem700]

Pics that I had seen the bars looked like rebar which would be rather flexible given there length.

[Snakeman721]

Pics that I had seen the bars looked like rebar which would be rather flexible given there length.

Yep, looked like rebar to me too. And the spacing between bars was pretty wide. Any svelte hoodlum could easily slip between them. Heck, a "boulder the size of a bowling ball" was found inside. Those bars gotta be spaced pretty far apart for a bowling ball sized object to fit through.

[LarryP]

sometimes thiefs use a spredder to widen the bars.