Caught on camera: Thieves storm Houston gun store

[jpak]

Source: CBS News

Police in Houston released some incredible surveillance video. It shows a team of thieves ransacking a gun store.

The dawn burglary at a south west Houston gun shop was fast and furious.

The group of men pulled up to the front of the store with a large pickup truck, smashed the windows, attached a chain to the doors, and pulled them right off their hinges.

Ten people then rushed in and ran through the store smashing a row of glass cases with hammers -- grabbing handguns by the sack full.

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[longship]

1. Can't wait to hear who they try to blame.

And who it actually is.

Gun nuts.

[itsrobert]

2. How did they identify them all as men?

Looks like they are covered head to toe.

[Aristus]

3. Um...let me guess:

'Responsible gun-owners defending their right to bear arms'.

[jpak]

4. Did any of those guns have locks?

doesn't look like it...

[Aristus]

10. They weren't in a safe, either.

n/t

[muntrv]

5. So where are the good guys with the guns?

[jpak]

7. Those WERE the good guys

Liberating the Holy Gunz from the nuts...

[TeddyR]

9. The criminals

Were the good guys?

[jpak]

13. Sarcasm is an acquired taste

[Judi Lynn]

17. If they love guns they are good guys, aren't they? n/t

[jpak]

23. Breakin' the Law - Breakin' the Law

[ileus]

40. Minutes, or hours away.

Or in the case of a woman I know 15 years and waiting...

[NobodyHere]

6. Thugs

I hope they get caught before they harm someone.

[TeddyR]

8. I hope these criminals

End up in prison. Thieves are the worst.

[Nihil]

26. "Thieves are the worst."? Really? The theft of "The Precious" is what upsets you?

Personally, I think that there is only one particular type of "thief" that
could genuinely be called "the worst": the kind that steals lives from
innocent victims ...

[ghostsinthemachine]

11. FuckingLibrul gun policies....

If only there had been a bunch of people sitting around the store, armed to the teeth then this whole thing could have been stopped right dead in the tracks. Would have! But no, the libruls say that you can't do that.....fucking libruls.

Guns are good. (Sarcasm smiley thing here)

BTW ever hear of this with a cannabis dispensary? A few robberies here in Sacramento but no swarm jobs. Been some at pharmacies too...

[jpak]

12. Fuck that 8-hour collectivist work day

If the slaves - er, employees - had to live there and clean each Holy Gun all night - this would not have happened.

[ghostsinthemachine]

14. That's right.

People should be out in the streets gunning em down before they even think about stealing something.

[jpak]

15. Fuckin' A

[Archae]

16. This is a classic "smash and grab."

Use a (most likely) stolen car or truck, smash their way in, smash everything, grab what they can and scram.

This is the first gun store I've seen the technique used in.

[7962]

18. Love how so many have no problem blaming the STORE.

Like its their fault a gang of crooks robbed them. Looked like it was SUPPOSED to be fairly secure; obviously not.
But the crooks are responsible for this and no one else

[Judi Lynn]

19. Why didn't they grab more long guns, so they could kill people farther away?

The big ones are best for the truly vicious but cowardly, who want to be as far away as possible from the victim in case they miss and the victim comes after them.

[jpak]

21. But handguns are portable, and concealable and lucrative

like the diamonds that they are to gun nuts and their thug brethren.

and

oh yeah - and they kill people by design.

yup

[ManiacJoe]

24. The long guns are usually locked into the wall.

Although the picture suggess these rifles were not.

The handguns are in glass display cases.

[briv1016]

20. Something's not right.

I thought stores were required to put all the guns in a locked safe at the end of the day to prevent this sort of robbery. Maybe that's just NY?

[jpak]

22. This wuz Houston

New York City?

Get a rope...

(Pace salsa reference for y'all)

[rockfordfile]

25. Hopefully they catch these pos

[romanic]

27. Assholes

Home-grown gangbangers wanting to terrorize their own neighborhood and protect their "turf". I hope one of these idiots brag about their heist and get the entire gang caught.

[Myrina]

32. A source of income is more like it. Sell 'em on the streets to gang banger wanna be's.

Small scale arms running, as it were.

[Sunlei]

28. There were about 12 of them, police already got most of them.

[leftynyc]

29. What do we know about the

perps so far? Part of an organized group?

[Sunlei]

30. how organized do they have to be to use a truck & chain to yank open easy doors?

[leftynyc]

31. You're talking about the crime

I'm talking about what may have led up to the crime. Are they white power assholes? Something like that?

[Sunlei]

33. sometimes a thief is just a thief? You think 'white power' has something to do /w smash & grab?

[leftynyc]

35. Could be

This wasn't your average smash and grab. I want to know who wanted all those guns.

[Reter]

34. Who says they're even white?

Hard to tell, but looking at the one guy in shorts, his legs appear to be non-white. The guy in the white hoody also has very low pants with no belt.

[leftynyc]

36. I didn't say there were white, did I?

I just asked a question. I simply want to know who wanted all those guns.

[Judi Lynn]

41. We can't have them falling into the "wrong hands," can we? n/t

[olddots]

37. don't worry there are more than enough for everyone

[Ace Rothstein]

38. Some of these guys have already been arrested.

I'm going to guess these guys are likely gang members.

http://www.click2houston.com/news/suspect-in-smash-and-grab-gun-store-robbery-appears-in-court

[TexasBushwhacker]

39. Yeah. That's the Alief area. Lot's of gangs. N/t