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https://www.newschannel5.com/news/m...qBhMzfcFgfDu2VDb4tgxCDJsbDd4uVuXVaeCOb5E Posted: 5:46 AM, Feb 26, 2020 Updated: 6:14 AM, Feb 26, 2020 By: Laken Bowles
By: Laken Bowles Police say they’re looking for three suspects after more than 20 guns were stolen from a Nashville Bass Pro Shops. AM BASS PRO SHOP BURGLARY.transfer_frame_46.png
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Police say they’re looking for three suspects after more than 20 guns were stolen from a Nashville Bass Pro Shops.
The call came in late Tuesday night at the store located in Opry Mills. Metro Nashville police say three suspects used a hammer to break the glass to get in the store.
According to investigators, they stole five to 10 bolt action rifles and 15 to 20 handguns, as well as weapon mounted lasers, lights and ammunition.
The store will have to complete a full inventory to determine serial numbers and the exact makes and models of the guns.
Police say the suspects left in a white Hyundai Sonata. They were not wearing gloves.
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It should be easy to find them since they all completed background checks first, right?
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We've had 5 gun store burglaries in Alabama so far this year ( 15 Guns Stolen in east Alabama Store Burglary). Maybe its the same bunch working their way north.
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Maybe its the same bunch working their way north. Probably local talent- - - - -the parking lot at Opry Mills, and the one at Rivergate Mall a few miles away are both combat zones. I spent close to 25 years teaching school a short distance from Opry Mills, and we had "students" from three gangs whose only reason for coming to school was to sell drugs and threaten each other. One morning in the parking lot outside my shop, a 9MM with ammo got sold for $50.00. By the time I heard about it and notified the campus cops, all the dindoonuffins and the Asian gangbangers involved in the deal were long gone. Jerry
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We have a Bass Pro Shop in Bridgeport CT. The manager of the gun counter told me when the store first opened they had an employee theft issue there. The local police have an assigned parking lot space if that tells you anything.
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Appears to be a rash of mid-south/southern gun stores targeted by thieves stealing sizable quantities of firearms over the last few years: https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdtn/p...es-following-recent-gun-store-burglaries
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, March 22, 2018 Four Facing Federal Firearms Charges Following Recent Gun Store Burglaries Approximately 125 Firearms Stolen from Five Area Gun Store
Four Nashville men were indicted by a federal grand jury yesterday and charged with federal firearms offenses, announced U.S. Attorney Don Cochran of the Middle District of Tennessee. Three are charged with multiple firearms offenses, including conspiracy to steal and sell stolen firearms, and one is charged with possession of a stolen firearm.
Keith Swanson, aka “Lil Keith,” 22; James D. Hudgens, 26; Karshma F. Dardy, Jr., 20; all of Nashville, Tennessee, are charged with with conspiracy to steal, possess and sell stolen firearms, all of which were recently stolen during five separate gun store burglaries in the middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky area. Keshawn Martin, 19, also of Nashville, is charged in a separate indictment with possession of a stolen firearm. The indictment also charges Swanson, Hudgens and Dardy Jr. with possessing stolen firearms and unlawfully engaging in the business of selling firearms.
“We realize that the recent rash of gun store burglaries and the substantial number of stolen guns potentially getting into the wrong hands have placed our communities at significant risk,” said U.S. Attorney Cochran. “I commend the ATF and our local law enforcement partners for their swift action in identifying those responsible and recovering many of these stolen firearms. We will continue to aggressively to pursue others who are involved in these crimes as well as other gun store thefts not addressed here today.”
According to the charging documents, between January 10, 2018 and February 18, 2018, five gun stores were burglarized, resulting in the theft of approximately 125 firearms:
Whittaker Gun Store, located in Owensboro, Kentucky was burglarized on January 10, 2018, and approximately 63 firearms were stolen; Wheeler’s Fastway Gun and Pawn, located in Bowling Green, Kentucky, was burglarized on January 17, 2018, and approximately 26 firearms were stolen; Kwik Cash Pawn Shop, located in Smyrna, Tennessee, was burglarized on January 19, 2018, and eight firearms were stolen; King’s Firearms and More, located in Columbia, Tennessee, was burglarized on February 13, 2018, and approximately 24 firearms were stolen; and on February 18, 2018, approximately 12 firearms were stolen during a burglary at Guns and Gear, located in Paris, Tennessee.
According to the indictments and other court documents, beginning in January 2018, Keith Swanson and others began recruiting individuals, including juveniles, to participate in burglaries of area gun stores. During the investigation of these burglaries and as the thefts continued to occur, agents found several “for sale” listings of similar firearms on the website, “Armslist.com.” Undercover agents were subsequently able to purchase several of the stolen firearms from James Hudgens and Keith Swanson and identify Keith Swanson as the person Hudgens was in frequent contact with when negotiating the sale of the firearms. Hudgens and Swanson were charged in a criminal complaint on February 23, 2018, and taken into federal custody.
Court documents also reflect that on February 23, 2018, agents interviewed Karshma Dardy, Jr., who was in custody at the Sumner County Jail on car-jacking charges. Agents were able to develop enough information to implicate his participation in some of the gun store burglaries and Dardy Jr. was subsequently charged in a federal criminal complaint on February 28, 2018.
Keshawn Martin was also charged in a federal criminal complaint on March 9, 2018, after being a passenger in a vehicle that was pulled over by Metropolitan Nashville police officers the previous day. According to the complaint, Martin fled on foot before being captured by police. When he was apprehended, a pistol was protruding from Martin’s pants pocket. This pistol was later determined to have been stolen during the burglary from King’s Firearms on February 13, 2018.
“Reducing violent crime and removing dangerous criminals from our communities is ATF’s top priority,” said Acting ATF Special Agent in Charge Jack Webb. “We will continue our collaborative efforts with our law enforcement partners and the U.S. Attorney’s Office as we strive to provide a safe environment for the public.”
If convicted, the defendants face up to 5 years in prison for the conspiracy charge; up to 5 years in prison for selling firearms without a license; and up to 10 years in prison for possessing stolen firearms; and a $250,000 fine.
This case is being investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives; the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation; Metropolitan Nashville Police Department; the 18th Judicial District Drug Task Force; the Hendersonville Police Department; the Gallatin Police Department; the Henry County Sheriff’s Office; the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office; and the Davies County, Kentucky Sheriff’s Office. Assistant U.S. Attorney Siji Moore is prosecuting the case.
An indictment is merely an accusation. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Joken2: I hate thieves - ESPECIALLY gun thieves! I hope they are rounded up somehow by the police. Sad. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy P.S.: Sounds like an ineffective alarm system - perhaps NO alarm system?
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Smash and grab
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Sounds like an ineffective alarm system - perhaps NO alarm system? Nope, that place has a good alarm system. The problem is response time. The nearest all night Krispy Kreme donut shop is several miles away. Jerry
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It’s a free for all ray-ray, get all the pos mossbergs you can carry nookuh Renegade50 wept
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Depending on the neighborhood etc., shouldn't they have a method to lock everything up at closing? Safes for the handguns, security drop-down steel gate for the long guns..
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Joken2: I hate thieves - ESPECIALLY gun thieves! I hope they are rounded up somehow by the police. Sad. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy P.S.: Sounds like an ineffective alarm system - perhaps NO alarm system? Many sound like quick, late night, well after or before business hours, 'grab all they can and run', break-ins in areas where quick police response to burglar alarms probably would be slow to unlikely. Whittaker's Guns for example is several miles from the nearest town with a 24 hour police force of any size and also a good ways from access to a major highway for quick getaway so apparently the thieves there weren't very worried about police catching them in the act or soon after.
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Gun control clearly works.
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Depending on the neighborhood etc., shouldn't they have a method to lock everything up at closing? Safes for the handguns, security drop-down steel gate for the long guns.. I was thinking the same thing. More states are imposing that obligation on individual home owner and I would assume that it would apply as well to any retail sellers of firearms. It is part of Bloomberg's efforts to criminalize firearms ownership. Hold a homeowner criminally liable if some one breaks into a locked house and steals a firearm - which is not in a locked safe.
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Gots to be lots of security video in store, parking lot, mall roads. They couldn't have picked a worse place to commit a crime.
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Our local Cabelas was hit last year. Not sure of how many were taken but it was significant.
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All I want is the 99 ( R?) on the wall. I keep wondering if they would let me climb up and at least dust it and swab rhe bore
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Most of the local shops around Louisville KY have had to put up concrete pillars in front of their stores. as the goblins would drive a stolen truck into the shop and load them up with booty. I can think of two pretty nice shops where that happened. In and out in a very, very short time.
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Joken2: I hate thieves - ESPECIALLY gun thieves! I hope they are rounded up somehow by the police. Sad. Hold into the wind VarmintGuy P.S.: Sounds like an ineffective alarm system - perhaps NO alarm system? Many sound like quick, late night, well after or before business hours, 'grab all they can and run', break-ins in areas where quick police response to burglar alarms probably would be slow to unlikely. Whittaker's Guns for example is several miles from the nearest town with a 24 hour police force of any size and also a good ways from access to a major highway for quick getaway so apparently the thieves there weren't very worried about police catching them in the act or soon after. Yeah, Whittaker's is at least 15 minutes from Owensboro, the nearest town of any size, and that road isn't built for speed, either. It's pretty twisty and you can't make good time on it.
You can roll a turd in peanuts, dip it in chocolate, and it still ain't no damn Baby Ruth.
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If they want guns criminals always find a way. No background checks or paperwork for them to do.
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