IMA Robbed!?!

[Mr.Sandman]

Just got an e-mail that IMA's warehouse has been burglarized:

Some very unfortunate news to report this holiday weekend- IMA was robbed. We estimate that between $250,000- $300,000 worth of material was stolen from one of our long term storage facilities in Easton, Pennsylvania.

[Kerplow]

IMA?

[Mr.Sandman]

IMA?

International Military Antiques (AKA IMA-USA or just IMA)

[GOEX FFF]

WOW!! That sucks!
That sounds like a huge amount of inventory.
They've had to of had safe guards put in place for an inventory that big.
I wonder if it was an inside job.

IMA is a great company. What a shame.

Here is a partial list of items that were stolen in sizable quantities:

Original German MG 13 Magazines, 8 to a transit chest (mags all dated 1938)
Original German MG 13 Magazines 8 to two canvas pouches w/ Neck strap (mags dated 1938)
Original German MP 34(o) Streyr Solothurn Magazines, 3 to a leather pouch
Original German MG 34 Belt Baskets in Dual Steel Carriers
Original German MG 34 Dual Basket Carriers, without baskets
Original Antique Nepalese Gahendra 1885 Untouched Rifles
Original Antique Nepalese Khukri Fighting Knives
Original Portuguese FPB (MP40) SMG Parts Sets, without receiver, bagged
Original British WW2 Foot Powder in marked cans
Original unissued U.S. WW2 Khaki webb belts
Original unissued U.S. 5 cell Khaki web Thompson 20 round Magazine pouches
There are asking if anyone has any information to contact the Pennsylvania state police.

[Spyder]

Burglarized, not robbed! That's worse than calling a magazine a clip!

[TheExpertish]

That sucks. Hopefully they still have some Nepalese Gahendra's left.

[caldude]

I can't imagine there's much of a black market for WWII foot powder.

[CSACANNONEER]

I can't imagine there's much of a black market for WWII foot powder.

It was replica "foot powder" just imported from Columbia. They only got away with a few keys.

[Mr.Sandman]

Burglarized, not robbed! That's worse than calling a magazine a clip!

If you noticed I said burglarized in my post, they were the ones who said robbed in their e-mail, so I used it to make the headline dramatic.

I wonder how they think they are going to get any reasonable amount of money for their loot. If they try to sell to actual collectors or anyone who knows the value they are going to get caught in a second.

I think some other shady folks are going to get good deals and not even realize that they got a good deal, nor what it is they actually bought.