Gun thief goes to well once too many times
Repeat customers are pretty common, but repeat thieves not so much.
An El Cajon, CA, gun store owner called 911 the night of Dec. 19 when he suspected a man in his store was responsible for a theft just weeks earlier and another theft at a Kearny Mesa gun store in October, Fox 5 San Diego reported.
“He moved in a manner that was similar to the person who hit us in November,” said David Chong, owner of AO Sword Firearms.
Chong told Fox 5 the customer appeared to be the same man who stole $125 worth of merchandise the previous month.
He felt he had another match when he cross-checked the man in his surveillance video to the man in surveillance photos from The Gun Range in Kearny Mesa, CA, where a man rented a $3,000 rifle for target practice then left the store with it.
“I actually referenced the Fox 5 website and saw a distinguishing tattoo on the back of his neck. I came back out, cruised the guy, looked at his tattoo—it matched. So I called 911,” said Chong.
Chong kept the suspected thief busy as he waited for police to show up, engaging him in conversation. He got the suspect to share photograph after photograph of $2,000 to $5,000 guns that were on his phone. One of them matched the description of the gun that was missing.
Guns top Christmas lists due to terrorism, restrictions
The convergence of fears over terrorism, a perceived threat of gun laws being changed and the Christmas holiday have sent gun sales soaring in what is already the busiest month of the year for firearm purchases, according to Today—and that was even before it was generally known that President Obama was going to impose broader new gun law changes.
Guns are at the top of many Christmas lists, especially if November is any indication, the NBC morning show noted.
A month before the news story, the FBI ran more than 2.2 million firearm background checks on potential buyers, a 24% increase from November 2014. On Black Friday, a record 185,345 background checks were processed by the FBI.
That increase coincided with the coordinated terrorist attacks at multiple sites in Paris by ISIS gunmen on Nov. 13 that killed 130 people and wounded 368.
Weeks later, on Dec. 2, an attack on a holiday party in San Bernardino, CA, killed 14 and injured 17 others.
“It marked the 355th mass shooting in 336 days this year and the deadliest since the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut three years ago,” Today claimed, citing questionable figures that had been reported as a separate news report.
At places like Adventure Outdoors in Smyrna, GA, business has nearly doubled compared to a year ago at this time, according to manager Eric Wallace.
“Ever since the Paris attacks, we’ve had a lot of customers coming in,” Wallace told Gabe Gutierrez on Today. “Buying first guns, buying guns to protect their homes, their families, and themselves.”
“Like any good husband, I asked for the list of Christmas items that you’d like to have and one of the items was a firearm,”’ gunowner Louis Cole told Gutierrez. “Above jewelry was a firearm!”
Trump pledges to reverse Obama gun exec orders
Like him or hate him, Property magnate turned Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump knows how and when to be topical..
Trump said on Jan. 3 that President Obama’s threatened executive action on guns would be “another step” toward completely stripping way US gun rights, according to Business Insider.
“Pretty soon you won’t be able to get guns. I mean, it’s another step in the way of not getting guns,” Trump said during a CNN interview.
Trump, who has vowed to reverse Obama’s executive action, further panned the general concept of presidents effecting policy changes unilaterally.
Also as part of his campaign related to the Second Amendment, Trump tweeted the following jab at Democrat presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton’s all-out gun grab policy speeches.
“Hillary said that guns don’t keep you safe. If she really believes that she should demand that her heavily armed bodyguards quickly disarm!”
TX governor’s tweet delivers “come and take it” message
Texans have a long reputation for directness—or plain speaking.
That was reconfirmed in capital letters when Gov. Greg Abbott responded on Twitter to Obama’s threat to impose more gun control through executive action.
“COME AND TAKE IT,” was Abbott’s response on Twitter.
The Texas Governor who himself graced the front of a Texas Monthly magazine cover armed with a shotgun, tweeted, “Obama wants to impose more gun control. My response.#? COME AND TAKE IT @NRA #tcot #PJNET”
His tweet included a “COME AND TAKE IT” flag, also known as the “Gonzales Flag,”an iconic symbol of Texas independence.
The governor attached to his tweet a Washington Post article stating that the President would meet with US Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch before announcing his executive actions on guns.
Prior to being elected governor, Abbott was the longest serving attorney general in the Lone Star state’s history. In that capacity he sued President Obama 31 times, including leading the way for the fight against the President’s unlawful executive order on amnesty.
As reported by Breitbart Texas, on the first day after he won the election for governor, Abbott vowed he would sign an open carry bill if the Texas Legislature sent one to his desk and he fulfilled that promise.
