CHP Rifle STOLEN

[joaoalegre]

Perhaps the "patrolling" CHP officers on-duty during this time, should stop by a Walmart and replace it with a Daisy Red Ryder BB Gun Rifle.

[Omega13device]

The rifle was in a locked police vehicle inside of a locked parking lot. It was further secured by a lock to the car itself. How much more secure can they make the rifle? Things get stolen and this just shows how motivated crimminals are to obtain firearms.

I can just envision all of the suggestions given here. Empty out an entire patrol car everytime you need to use the head; because nothing gets stolen inside of a police station either.

Oh come on. The station where the cars were parked is manned 24 hours. Is your expectation that these same criminals would have just held up the officers in the station instead and stolen the rifles from there?

What's so hard about walking the rifle and shotgun over to the station to lock them up at the end of your shift?

[The Director]

The rifle was in a locked police vehicle inside of a locked parking lot. It was further secured by a lock to the car itself. How much more secure can they make the rifle? Things get stolen and this just shows how motivated crimminals are to obtain firearms.

I can just envision all of the suggestions given here. Empty out an entire patrol car everytime you need to use the head; because nothing gets stolen inside of a police station either.

I doubt if it was locked all those ways. If it was, then the thief had to pick the lock to get into the gate, jimmy the car door, and then unlock the rifle. This would take some time.....if no one was watching during all this lock picking, shame on them.

My bet is the gate was open and the car was unlocked. A quick grab and run.

[pdq_wizzard]

i saw the story on the kron 4 news. the chp officer that was interviewed said that he did not know why someone would steal it (criminals duh!) because they can be legally bought. does the chp know about OLLs?

Two things,

1) I would think the Colt was on the list, so no you can't legally buy it. And according to CA it is an AW.

2) they cost over $1K so why buy when they can steal it?

[rtlltj]

Gotta love the news. They want the public to think the police are using bolt action hunting rifles not evil assault rifles!

[NRAhighpowershooter]

KTVU this a.m. FINALLY said it was a A Salt weapon......

[Suvorov]

i saw the story on the kron 4 news. the chp officer that was interviewed said that he did not know why someone would steal it (criminals duh!) because they can be legally bought. does the chp know about OLLs?

Because Mr Occifer, CRIMINALS (guys who would steel ARs out of patrol cars) DON'T BUY THEIR GUNS LEGALLY.

Really, why is this concept/truth so hard for anti's to understand?

[CA_AR-15_925]

hahaha.... well its another gun landing in the wrong hands.... i have my glock 40 and AR-15 so im protected hehe....

[NIB]

Maybe someone from New Orleans came to reclaim his AR.

[nobody33]

This is not as un common as you think. At CHP San bernardino the bad guys would cut holes in the roofs of the cars in the parking lot to get the 870's back in the early 90's.

Another agency had their AR15 taken from a car in the East bay about five months ago too.

[tincan715]

Interesting how the Chronicle calls an AR-15 stolen from the CHP a semiautomatic rifle but a similar semiautomatic rifle stolen from a civilian or used in a crime would undoubtedly be reported as an assault weapon.

I see a PR and educational opportunity here, perhaps an official Calguns Foundation "letter to the editor" is in order. I'm amazed at how often reporters call a backhoe a bulldozer - maybe they need an explanation of firearms terminology.

[skateboarder74]

That took some serious balls

[Omega13device]

I doubt if it was locked all those ways. If it was, then the thief had to pick the lock to get into the gate, jimmy the car door, and then unlock the rifle. This would take some time.....if no one was watching during all this lock picking, shame on them.

My bet is the gate was open and the car was unlocked. A quick grab and run.

The perps cut a hole in the chain link fence, then somehow got into the car where the rifle was locked to the car with an "electro-lock". Was the car unlocked? Possibly. I can't see any damage to the car in the video they showed.

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Thief-Swipes-CHP-Rifle-Ammo.html

I think the basic problem is that there is outer security layers are extremely weak (chain link fence, car door locks, lack of cameras and alarms) and that gave the thieves plenty of time to work on the electro-lock. It's sort of like leaving your gun safe outside at night in the middle of an empty lot with a sign on it saying "Colt Match Target HBAR inside, free ammo too."

[timdps]

Channel 7 news did refer to it as an assault weapon.

tim

The officer I saw interviewed this morning went to great pains to refer to it as a "single-shot rifle, not fully automatic or burst". I did think that was funny since it's clearly a semi-automatic and when a "regular" person has one it magically becomes an assault rifle.

[97F1504RAD]

Hmmm. Heres a good way to solve it. Arrest anyone with at least 120 rounds of 223. Theres your suspect

Don't give them any ideas they may take it to heart.