12,000 Guns Stolen from Stores Over Past 2 Years

[billh58]

A masked thief smashed through the glass door of GTX Guns in Georgetown, Texas early in the morning of May 9. In just 7 seconds he was off with an armful of guns.

This past April in Hampton, Virginia, crooks used a stolen car to crash through the front door of Treasure Chest Pawn and Gun. Several guns were gone in less than 45 seconds.

In early Mach, a dramatic smash and grab played out in Houston, where as many as 10 suspects used chains to rip the metal bars off the front of Carter’s Country gun store in Houston. More than 50 guns were stolen in less than 2 minutes.

According to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), gun store burglaries are on the rise -- a 28 percent increase from 2013 to 2015, with more than 1,100 federally licensed gun dealers victimized and more than 12,000 handguns, shotguns and rifles stolen.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/12000-guns-stolen-stores-past-years/story?id=39215257

The black market for guns is a fast growing industry, and along with straw purchases provides a ready supply of increasingly more guns in our neighborhoods and on our streets. The right-wing ALEC/NRA funded "guns everywhere" fear campaign feeds the market for guns, and fuels the profits of the arms merchants who don't care if their products are stolen from dealers, because the guns have already been paid for. Besides, the more guns on the street, the more fear they can use to sell even more guns to be stolen.

Support a gun control organization of your choice and help to reduce the obscene number of guns being marketed to society for no other reason than greed and profits.