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Zorro

(15,691 posts)
Sat Mar 25, 2023, 02:13 PM Mar 2023

The Largest Source of Stolen Guns? Parked Cars.

The growing number of firearms kept in vehicles has become a new point of contention in the debates over regulating gun safety.

NASHVILLE — On a Sunday in January 2022, a Glock 9mm pistol, serial number AFDN559, disappeared from a Dodge Charger parked near a Midtown Nashville bank after someone smashed in the rear driver’s side window.

Ten months later, Nashville police officers arrested three teenagers suspected in a series of shootings, and discovered a cache of weapons in a nearby apartment. Among them was AFDN559. Forensic analysts would later tie the Glock to three shootings, including an attack in August that wounded four youths and another that wounded a 17-year-old girl in September.

In a country awash with guns, with more firearms than people, the parked car, or in many cases the parked pickup truck, has become a new flashpoint in the debates over how and whether to regulate gun safety.

There is little question about the scope of the problem. A report issued in May by the gun-control group Everytown for Gun Safety analyzed FBI crime data in 271 American cities, large and small, from 2020 and found that guns stolen from vehicles have become the nation’s largest source of stolen firearms — with an estimated 40,000 guns stolen from cars in those cities alone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/25/us/illegal-guns-parked-cars.html?unlocked_article_code=a5TzL8D7C57lS_Om2cS5KY-g2nU4xlYO2Hx9dEBBE81n3SGnnCVeY4RZrpVDe0giRojpKyS640J2_hvsvyruqmV_55SEDK5j5K0UP7yg0-lAjiGX1O90ZJJGuKvd18UCe18u_HERss5tOYH1cMJo0B1Qu8MmKVYae4pgdyT4QeKQKIix-VjfusD4v64yTlvuBC0KFiwq7iVb8pYbEptkvn7E23nBvj6gWHDk-QKzL1xGqBQ1zSWg9QmPPKMp8ydoA5Eramwl3Z1SwVV0ubHlmYQqEZV_Wl0z48Zt8Cgetck8vKBCsPZXNdmArF7ZfsC_ibd6GUuF3cP1hNZp2g&smid=url-share
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The Largest Source of Stolen Guns? Parked Cars. (Original Post) Zorro Mar 2023 OP
The so-called legal gun sellers, buyers, makers are all culpible ... sanatanadharma Mar 2023 #1
When I saw the post title I knew it would be about Tennessee Docreed2003 Mar 2023 #2
Leaving a gun in a car is a really dumb thing to do, if for no other reason than HeartachesNhangovers Mar 2023 #3
And yet gun owners swear heckles65 Mar 2023 #4
In the UK... Grins Mar 2023 #7
That's what we should have here heckles65 Apr 2023 #8
The right will now say that Wonder Why Mar 2023 #5
Here is an example from an article in a small town paper: Wonder Why Mar 2023 #6

sanatanadharma

(3,639 posts)
1. The so-called legal gun sellers, buyers, makers are all culpible ...
Sat Mar 25, 2023, 03:25 PM
Mar 2023

The so-called legal gun owners, sellers, buyers, makers are all culpable in the leakage from legal to illegal.
A stolen gun owner should be charged with a crime; new laws if necessary.
If your unattended gun is stolen, you are not a victim; you are aiding and abetting criminal-gun activity.

Docreed2003

(16,817 posts)
2. When I saw the post title I knew it would be about Tennessee
Sat Mar 25, 2023, 05:06 PM
Mar 2023

This is a huge, huge problem here currently. Guns are easily accessible, able to be carried without permit, and people are too careless with weapon storage. It's outrageous and a totally preventable problem.

3. Leaving a gun in a car is a really dumb thing to do, if for no other reason than
Sat Mar 25, 2023, 05:30 PM
Mar 2023

because any gun worth having will cost you at least $400. Leaving $400 cash in your glove box would be really dumb, too.

But I won't give a pass to the criminal who broke into the vehicle, stole the gun, then illegally sold it to someone they probably knew was a full-time criminal. They are the one to blame here.

heckles65

(544 posts)
4. And yet gun owners swear
Sat Mar 25, 2023, 06:22 PM
Mar 2023

they keep all their guns in a 2" thick safe with a twelve number combination known only to themselves.

Grins

(7,134 posts)
7. In the UK...
Tue Mar 28, 2023, 04:32 PM
Mar 2023

…you must get the OK from the police BEFORE you are allowed to buy a gun. One of the MANY!!! requirements is a steel safe for the gun.

And they will come to your HOUSE to see and verify you do.
Don’t have one? No gun.

Come to the house and don’t have one you said you had?
No gun - EVER.
Lying is PROOF you lack the character and citizenship to have a deadly weapon.

Their background check takes months; similar to a secret clearance from the government.

Wonder Why

(2,875 posts)
5. The right will now say that
Sat Mar 25, 2023, 09:18 PM
Mar 2023

"If we ban cars in inner cities, only criminals there will have cars".

That's why they always buy lots of pickups. To protect their Second Amendment rights to carry guns in the back window where everyone can see and steal them.

Wonder Why

(2,875 posts)
6. Here is an example from an article in a small town paper:
Sun Mar 26, 2023, 10:24 AM
Mar 2023

[link:https://www.hendersonvillelightning.com/news/12587-pair-charged-with-car-break-ins.html|

The article mentions a man and a woman charged with breaking into multiple cars and ends with:

Bother[sic] are charged with eight counts of breaking and entering a motor vehicle, two counts of larceny from a motor vehicle and two counts of larceny of a firearm.

“Please make sure you are locking your car doors and please don’t store firearms in your vehicles,” the sheriff’s office said.


So 8 cars were apparently "allegedly" broken into and two guns stolen. That comes out to 25% of the break-ins resulted in guns being found. [They might both have come from a single car. The article is not clear on that.] Think of all the cars stolen and how many guns that could mean.
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