(May 20, 2014 - EDT)
Burglars and thieves hit last weekend's Orlando gun show at the Central Florida Fairgrounds, according to police. While gun buyers looked for bargains at the Southern Knife and Gun Show, burglars broke into vehicles parked at the West Colonial Drive fairgrounds and stole guns, ammunitions and other items worth about $10,000, a report stated. The burglars smashed car and truck windows worth about $1,000 to take recently bought handguns stored inside the vehicles.(H/T: The Gun Wire)
If this isn't blogged, and commented in Gun Control websites (and the national news, etc.) a lot in the next week, I'll be very surprised.
LOTS of talk in the comments section, about the efficacy of car alarms. Which, as noted, are commonly ignored.
I remember going to a movie ... "The Burbs", w/ Tom Hanks .. a decade or two back. When the movie was over, I found my 1987 Porsche with driver-side window glass all over the seat. I talked to the ticket taker about why nobody responded to my horn-beeping car alarm: "Oh .. " she said, "Car alarms go off all the time. We don't pay any attention to them any more. It's .. like .. so common."
Things have changed since then, apparently. Comments (see above) suggest that now there are car alarms which call your phone to announce that your alarm has been activated.
Sounds if this is an idea whose time has come.
But back to the gun show: no, the parking lots are not commonly patrolled. The off-duty policemen who are hired to provide "security" generally (in my experience) restrict their attention to the entries. They're there to make sure nobody brings a loaded weapon into the gun show.
Obviously, we don't trust folks NOT to do the "Negligent Discharge" thingie ... you know as well as I do that there is a lot of gun-handling at gun shows, and an ND is a serious no-no.
On the other hand .. carry is permitted at most gun shows. And loaded magazines in magazine carriers are typically allowed, too. The idea isn't to compromise self-defense, but to prevent NDs.
We're not afraid of guns; we just want to give the IDIOTS among us to practice safe gun-handling.
Gun shows and gun shops remain among the safest venues, vis a vis shooting incidents.
Which we can't say for Gun Free Zones.
1 comment:
15 years ago I attended a movie. When I got out, I found my new Mercury sitting on it's brakes. Four wire wheels and tires were gone. There were several other thefts in the movie parking lot that night. According to the police a common occurance.
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