Because we’re the problem
First Coast News reports that an FBI agent warned the Jacksonville, Florida Sheriff Department that someone broke into his car and stole his handgun, his rifle, his body armor along with his gear bag.
The police report says there were no signs of forced entry on the vehicle but the passenger side door was left open.
The incident is one of six that the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is investigating from over the weekend where weapons were stolen from cars.
This could probably be solved if we had tougher background checks for those of us who don’t have our weapons and equipment stolen from our LOCKED cars. In fact, I probably need an extra layer of background checks because I don’t leave any of my weapons unattended in full view in my car.
The guns probably broke free from the car and they’re wrapped in a shirt somewhere just waiting for a felon and/or illegal alien to pick them up so the guns can go on a rampage.
Category: Guns
Jonn, that’s a new level of snarky snarky.
And tot’s appro.
You just have to train your weapons not to go wandering around…lol…leave it to Phoebe, FBI strikes again !!
It looks like that both the guns and the agents need to be on short leashes. Not one of mu guns or dogs has ever hurt another human being. Both come under my positive control.
This keeps happening to “gummint agents”. Allow me to put my tinfoil hat on for a minute:
See? Jade helm is the distraction, they are giving guns to the illegals to commit crimes by “leaving them in unlocked cars” so they can kill people. Then, the politicians will get people to agree with them about abolishing the 2nd amendment and taking all our firearms away!
Okay, taking the tinfoil hat off again. Thank you for your cooperation. Good night.
Huh.
I thought it was “inviting entry” rather than theft when a numpty leaves his shit unsecured.
At least, that’s what the cops explained to a numpty who lost his car by leaving the keys in it and the door unlocked as he ran into a Stop and Go. I got to listen to the explanation because I was in the process of pumping gas while it was being given.
Regardless of the above being accurate law or not, Fed or LEO who can’t be bothered to have a basic sense of gear security need to be sent to find jobs more within their actual abilities. Mowing lawns, maybe?
Only if he gets 6 months training on the necessity of keeping his hands and feet out from under the mower. Required due to the advanced level of stupidity already displayed. And even then, I wouldn’t hire him.
“Would you like fries with that order?” sounds about more this numbnut’s speed.
I don’t want him touching my food.
I am still choking back rage from this low lifes lawyer, “It could have been a case of accidental discharge”. Yeah it just went off, 3 fookin’ times.
I’m gonna take heat for this, but I’ve gotta take up for the agent. A competent car thief isn’t going to leave signs they broke into a car. An unlocked door just means the crook left it unlocked. The only option he had other than leaving the guns in his car was to take them inside his house. And if they’re willing to break into his car they’re probably willing to break into his house. I know this because somebody broke into my house with my patrol car sitting in the driveway and my family home.
Can we get the after action report on that event?
He went out the back the way he came in. I wasn’t home. My wife heard someone come in the back because of the house alarm beeping. She knew it wasn’t me so she did what we had planned. She shut herself and the kids in our bedroom with the 12ga and got ready to shoot whoever came through the bedroom door. I called 911 and got home about 5 minutes later. When I cleared the house I found nothing but an open back door.
Your wife was awesome, secured the kids, made sure she had a great room clearer and KEPT CALM. You did right, teaching your wife. Team work and your FAMILY IS SAFE. Job well done.
She did do well. Like I told her, she had the home field advantage. We can and have walked through every scenario more than once. She is, however, a more attentive student now…
Teach your children well. Your wife, had everything under control You taught her well. All safe
I think my gun safe with my zombie apocalypse ammo on top of it may have been a deterrent. It was the first thing they would’ve seen walking in the back door.
You stopped at the most important part. What happened to the home invader?
Don’t care about locked or unlocked. You DON’T leave your gear on the seat, front or back, IN PLAIN SIGHT. That’s just dumbassery, waiting for an invitation for a break in.
Another case of “Special Ones” in action.
A lot of LE cars are being broken into specifically for the guns. It used to be possible to break into the trunk of a crown victoria by popping out the right side reverse lense and then pulling the safety cable. Pop the lense back in and nobody was the wiser. My dept started putting plates behind the reverse lense so it wasn’t possible to grab the safety cable from the outside.
Exactly what happened to a family member here. He went to soccer practice with his son, car parked in front of his garage and while they were gone, poof. Got every one his duty weapons out of the trunk.
I believe LEOs encourage Christmas shoppers to cover up packages in unattended vehicles.
How hard is it to find a cheap blanket that is a reasonable match for the upholstery, and toss it over the raid gear? Maybe add a wadded up towel or two on top, and an empty laundry detergent bottle.
Or, as is the norm in my car at least, a couple of jackets that the kids left in there, some old McDonalds bags and an old sock. Any car thief looking in my car windows will be more worried about getting tetanus from rummaging around than finding anything valuable. 😉
YGTBSM
I don’t even leave my phone in the car and law enforcement leaves all that stuff unatended and unlocked? Bitch please.
Links and video point to LEO’s unlocked GI vehicle. Doesn’t say if the pistol/rifle were GI, but since his gear bag and body armor were GI, methinks they were too. Not going to look good on the performance evaluation. Not to mention if they are used in a crime. Secure your trash people.
“If it wasn’t for dickheads like you, there wouldn’t be any thievery in this world, would there?”
“Sir, NO SIR!”
There is only one thief in the Army. Everyone else is just trying to get back their shit.
I’m missing a rubber bitch. Any idea who might have an “extra” one lying around?
And remember kids, gear adrift is a gift!
30 years I lived in Chicago, and the only things stolen from me were my car – someone popped the lock and hotwired it – and my purse – left it in my skating bag in the audience benches at the rink. Car turned up later in Humboldt Park, stripped to the bone, so I sent the keys off to the insurance company. My purse was returned to me when an Evanston cop found it in the alley. The only thing missing was the cash in my wallet. The Evanston cops knew who did it because she was notorious for doing it and her mother had gone to the police station to turn her in.
Any car can be broken into, so don’t leave your shit in it EVER. Always drive with your car doors locked, even in broad daylight. If someone wants your stuff, he’s going to take it, so put it where he can’t get at it. Keep your doors locked and get burglar locks for your windows at home. I don’t think there is such a thing as a safe neighborhood in any city any more.
God bless the mom that turned her daughter in for the thefts; I hope her efforts to pull her daughter from the brink succeeded.
It is mind boggling how many people drive around routinely (in an urban/suburban setting) with their doors unlocked.
I used to leave a wallet in plain view on my dashboard and/or console in my old jeep.
I would stuff it only with a piece of folded paper to make it look fat, sometimes with a little Monopoly money tossed in for added effect.
Written on the paper was “Your a stupid motherfucker AND you are still broke! Maggot.”
Many times I would come back and see it open, the paper torn up and laying on the ground.
Opportunistic thieves. Turds.
Some years ago, a friend of mine in Houston saw a man push in a window on a car and steal something from it. He followed the man, and called the police. They caught the guy. It was a toy camera.
The guy broke a window on a car to steal a toy camera.
I don’t leave anything identifiable in my car that is visible from the windows.
The irony.
We’re giving cops pointers on how not to get your shit stolen from your car…
He probably got his start at Ambassador Worldwide Protection Agency run by none other than “Turd” Bolling himself.
And how do I know this? Simple deduction.
The agent in question seems to be able to neither “confirm nor deny” his culpability in his lack of security.
We got our house broken in to once. Kid across the street was a explorer for our local cop shop. I came home to a house surrounded by cops. Electronic equipment was stacked up beside the house. My gun, I normally put it the safe, was still on the dresser, with scares on top. If I hadn’t been so picky about which to wear my gun would be history. Kid identified the twins who lived down the street. Total loss. NADA
Scarf’s
For a while here, a couple of years ago, there seemed to be reports every few days of people finding police issued weapons in bathrooms. Who knew that guns had bowel movements?
Claymore..they do have movements..everytime you clean your gun. Poop out the bullets, wipe it clean. Add more soon to be movements
Since I know that people will steal anything, if I take my camera with me, in the bag, on a hike, I leave the camera bag sitting in plain sight on the front seat with the top unzipped and wide open. There is nothing in it except paper. My tripod is under a dark blanket on the floor of the back seat.
I never ever carry a purse on these escapades of mine. I only need my driver’s license, one card for gas, a couple of dollars for a pit stop, and my VAHC card, and that goes into a zippered pocket wallet.
I still have an old cell phone that I could toss at a thief who wants my ‘phone’, because it’s not a smartphone. It would really distract and disappoint a thief and give me time to pull out that pink canister of pepper spray. I can’t think of anything else one can do to deflect this kind of thing.
I carry a replica of the old war medical bag. Around my waist with quick release and upper thigh. It holds everything I need. Wallet, credit cards, cell, etc. Can’t pull it off but could be cut off my body. That’s why I have knife, stun gun and mace, ties. I’ll sent a picture to Jonn. It’s made for men and women.
Can you “break into” a car if you open the door that is left unlocked?
That sheriff should be booted from the force for leaving gear unsecured.
Had that happen in my town up north. State Police left his full auto, don’t get me started, AR on the back seat of his car and it disappeared. About 100 cops showed up and blocked the main road in town and asked every car if they had any information. They got roundly laughed at and gave up in a day. My response was that even if I did I sure as fuck wouldn’t tell them about it. That cop need to be fired for and unsecured weapon. The State Cop just said “have a nice day” as if I wasn’t the first to say it and I doubt I was.