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  • slick_711
    Veteran Member
    • Feb 2006
    • 4400

    ATTENTION SAN DIEGO SHOOTERS and whoever else

    Please be on the lookout for the following items in your gun shopping in the next few weeks. I know it is very highly unlikely they'll turn up to be sold via a legal means, but I can hope. Anyway, my home was burglarized. Very targeted it seems, all that was taken was my long guns, and my phone and camera, which were laying out in plain sight.

    1x RRA AR-15 16" carbine

    1x Calguns Centermass AR-15 18" precision build w/Leupold Mark 2
    (never even got to take/post the pics of it, and only shot it once)

    1x Browning A-5, older, parkerized

    1x Ruger 10/22 standard blue/wood w/ Bushnell scope

    Both ARs were CA compliant, and they were my babies. I'm frustrated, and still waiting for the cops (6 hours later) but it's a busy weekend and mine is not an "in progress" call so I understand. Thankfully my SA 1911 was still in place and is now @ my hip for the rest of the early morning, and my Colt is @ work in my locker.

    My roommate and I stepped out to go to the grocery store (were gone 15 minutes tops) and right before we left we turned on the AC, so I went around and made sure all the doors were locked and windows closed. We get back to find a close buddy on the porch waiting for us, asking why our other roommate wouldn't open the door for him. Our other roommate is out of town this weekend. We determine the house is clear, the burglar got scared off by my buddy pounding on the door. My .223 & 9mm ammo cans are dropped in the back yard outside the window, but 4 of my long guns and my phone/camera are gone.

    I know, I know, I should've had a safe, but my place is small, and I'm poor, my intention was to get a safe when I move from here (next year). So please don't chastise me there. I'm very OCD about locking the house up and not many people know I have guns, let alone where they are. So since that is all that was taken, I'm thinking it is someone who knows me, perhaps an ex-roommate who may have duplicated their key. But that is speculation on my part. It's also possible that is what they took first and they'd have taken electronics and w/e if they hadn't been scared off.

    That's it for now I guess. If the cops show up at some point and that is eventful I'll update later, but I'm sure they'll just take a report and I'll never see my babies again. That damn Calguns SPR had exactly 100 rounds through it, after I waited months for all the parts & scope and spent over $2k on it. I'm sure some criminal will sell/buy it for a few hundred. It really makes me want to .... well you know. But I don't know who did it so theres nothing I could do, and that is best left to the law anyway.

    Thank you ahead of time for you guys keeping an eye out @ ranges on the line, @ any gun shops/pawn shops/gun sales sites that you may frequent. I know they're unlikely to turn up, but it's worth spreading the info around I figured.
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    jc_stecker
    Member
    • Jul 2007
    • 213

    What city?
    Well let me tell you, son, war isn't hell. War is mall. Shopping mall.

    -Gecko45

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    • #3
      Crazed_SS
      Veteran Member
      • Dec 2005
      • 4114

      That royally sucks.. Can I ask what area you live in San Diego?

      EDIT: I dont have a safe, but I have a gun cabinet. It only cost 100 bucks and I figure it's better than nothing. I doubt it would stop determined burglars, but I think it would be a detterent to crackhead or tweaker types are are just trying to grab whatever's laying around and get out quick.

      I have one like this.. http://www.stack-on.com/securityplus.../gc-908-5.html .. Like I said, it's not much, but it makes me feel a little better that I dont have guns laying all around.
      Last edited by Crazed_SS; 09-03-2007, 4:33 AM.
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      • #4
        Nefarious
        Senior Member
        • Jun 2006
        • 2083

        Do tell what part of San Diego.
        You posted this pretty early in the morn... have the authorities arrived yet? Have you noticed anything else missing besides the items you mentioned? Since they went straight for your weapons - and appears that they did not have to break in - its probably a good assumption that it was someone you knew or invited into your home (like an old roomate).
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        • #5
          Paul
          Senior Member
          • Jan 2003
          • 1102

          Inside job

          Sorry to hear of your loss but you were stalked very carefully.

          Someone knew that you had rifles. Somone knew your room mate was gone. Someone knew you were gone. Unless you've got a very big mouth someone very close to you ripped you off - or someone was very lucky. Likely someone in your very apartment complex who could maintain a visual on your front door or cars.

          A fair safe costs less than either of your two rifles. A good one about the same.
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          • #6
            Nefarious
            Senior Member
            • Jun 2006
            • 2083

            Originally posted by Paul
            Sorry to hear of your loss but you were stalked very carefully.

            Someone knew that you had rifles. Somone knew your room mate was gone. Someone knew you were gone. Unless you've got a very big mouth someone very close to you ripped you off - or someone was very lucky. Likely someone in your very apartment complex who could maintain a visual on your front door or cars.

            A fair safe costs less than either of your two rifles. A good one about the same.
            You know, I did not even think of that right off the bat. The thief HAD to know the roomate was gone, and they HAD to know no one was in the house at the time - especially only being gone 15 minutes!! He/She/They were probably scoping out the place, saw them leave - maybe even expected them to leave - went in and did not expect someone to show up so soon
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            • #7
              colossians323
              Crusader for the truth!
              CGN Contributor - Lifetime
              • Oct 2005
              • 21637

              Calgunners,

              This is not the first time this has happened to a member here.
              slick_711, this is not chastisement to you, but a warning to others.

              If you think that your guns are hidden well, without a safe, think again.
              If you think that only a couple of people know of your guns, so your ok, think again.
              If you thnk that you live in a good neighborhood, and this kind of thing doesn't happen here, think again.
              If you think that you can't afford a safe, can you afford not to own one?

              Even if you have to buy one of those cheap sentry's that they sell at home depot, I'm sure they bolt to the floor, and it would be just one more hassle a thief will have to go through to get at your precious firearms.

              The harder you make it for a thief, the less likely you will lose your firearms.

              All we can do now is hope that the thief that stole these guns, is stoopid enough to leave a trail behind, and the police are smart enough to follow it.

              Slick_711 we all hope you get your valued proprerty back.
              LIVE FREE OR DIE!

              M. Sage's I have a dream speech;

              Originally posted by M. Sage
              I dream about the day that the average would-be rapist is afraid to approach a woman who's walking alone at night. I dream of the day when two punks talk each other out of sticking up a liquor store because it's too damn risky.

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              • #8
                c good
                Veteran Member
                • Oct 2005
                • 2637

                Slick 711.
                That really does suck. I too believe it was someone that knows the layout of your place and knew your situation coming and going.

                You don't have to be specific, but could you give us a general area other than San Diego, so we know where these dirt bags are operating? c good

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                • #9
                  ZombieKiller
                  Veteran Member
                  • Apr 2007
                  • 2555

                  This sucks........I hope your insurance policy helps.

                  Man, I need to get a safe.
                  "The bitterness of poor quality is remembered long after the sweetness of low price has faded from memory...."

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                  • #10
                    tlillard23
                    Senior Member
                    • Jan 2006
                    • 1446

                    it blows, but who cares

                    your stuff got stolen, it's only money and you were not hurt. I am more worried about some cockball going out and blasting a bunch of people with (your very nice) stolen stuff. go get a safe with your insurance money, THEN fill it up.

                    I say that because they guy who told (made me..) me to get a safe was worried about one thing. Bad people doing bad things with his guns.

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                    • #11
                      slick_711
                      Veteran Member
                      • Feb 2006
                      • 4400

                      I'm in my last year at SDSU, and live in a house my family owns right off campus. And I should have a safe, I know "I'm broke" is a weak excuse, I just don't have anywhere to put a decent one at the moment and I was sure I'd be fine till I move in spring. It makes me feel stupid, because we sell those Stack-on gun cabinets at my work. This happened around 9pm last night, and I was up till 4am, cops never showed, I don't know if they will today or what. SDPD is hurting pretty bad for men and it's a holiday weekend.

                      I'm pretty sure nothing else was taken, all my major electronics are in place, and I had no spare cash laying around (have none anyway ), my roommate who was out of town's laptop isn't in his room, but I'm hoping he took that with him for the weekend. Everything else is untouched, I mean... we have an Xbox/PS2/Gamecube and all that all sitting on the living room floor, and they're all still there. This #$&^#* went straight to my closet. I hate to accuse my friends but I think it must be someone I know, because while I do talk about shooting some, I am fairly tightlipped about having guns and where they are etc. around people I don't know. I also do a pretty good job of being in the garage with the door closed when taking guns to/from my truck.

                      I am upset about losing my guns, those two ARs alone were half a years wages and one of them I hadn't even gotten to take out to a good distance range. But they are just things, its frustrating, but they can be replaced. My major concern, as Tillard said, was that some duffer could be out using my well taken care of and lovingly built ARs to break the law and endanger people, that really bothers me. From the look of it the thief tried to take the ammo cans but got scared off, and dropped them. So none of the guns were loaded, but .223 isn't hard to find.

                      Anyway, if I talk to the cops I'll update you guys. Thank you all for the sympathy, and like I said, college area SDSU, just in case it wasn't someone I know. Feel free to shoot the ***** on sight. I've gotta shower and go in to work now, going to try and fax around a list of the guns to all the local gun/pawn shops I can think of. I know that is part of what the cops do, but since they haven't shown yet it'll give me something to do to get out of the house.

                      I just can't believe this.

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                      • #12
                        Blue
                        Calguns Addict
                        • Oct 2005
                        • 8069

                        I'll tell my brother to keep an eye out. He goes to that school and lives in the area.
                        Lord, make my hand fast and accurate.
                        Let my aim be true and my hand faster
                        than those who would seek to destroy me.
                        Grant me victory over my foes and those who wish to do harm to me and mine.
                        Let not my last thought be 'If I only had my gun."
                        And Lord, if today is truly the day you call me home, let me die in an empty pile of brass.
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                        • #13
                          slick_711
                          Veteran Member
                          • Feb 2006
                          • 4400

                          Thank you Blue, and everyone else. I know it's unlikely they'll turn up, but I figure it's worth the effort at least spreading around the list, and if it's a dumb kid maybe I'll get lucky and they'll show up to a shooting range and someone I know will see them awkwardly fumbling with a rifle much too nice for a n00b to have built/purchased. Or someone could see one of them on a rack in a pawn shop or something, who knows. I don't expect to get them back, but it'd be nice to know the guy got caught.

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                          • #14
                            DRM6000
                            CGN Contributor
                            • Jan 2006
                            • 5809

                            sorry about the unfortunate incident. you say you were gone for 15 minutes. what was the nature of your trip? did you get a call to go somewhere?

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                            • #15
                              jc_stecker
                              Member
                              • Jul 2007
                              • 213

                              I'm at Miramar, so I'll make sure to keep an eye out at ASC. If they are a n00b, that's probably the first place they'll go.

                              Would it be possible for you to give us the ser.#'s?
                              Well let me tell you, son, war isn't hell. War is mall. Shopping mall.

                              -Gecko45

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