Vehicle B and E.

[Trunk Monkey]

A hand gun, out of site, in a secure lock box, in a "nothing special" vehicle is not likely to draw such attention.

How much attention does it need to draw?

 

[boom boom]

To reduce the chance of firearm thieves targeting your vehicle put one of the hollowing bumper stickers on your ride: "Ban Assault Weapons", "I support Bernie"," Soccer Mom", "Green Peace" or something similar. I call it Urban Camouflage.

Then they'll break into your car for your supposed dope stash. With thieves, heads they win, tails you lose.

 

[HB]

For a long while, unscrupulous scrap dealers would more or less accept any lie told to them by people bring "scrap" to them such as brand new materials which is why some states require id to sell the stuff to the salvage dealer and that checks be issued and mailed to a provided address rather than paying cash. Somewhat similar for shady pawn dealers and as a result, transaction paperwork has increased for them as well. Proving that someone knowing bought stolen merchandise allowed these folks to stay in business rather than be in prison.

Pawn shops and scrap yards are still like this. I have personally retrieved a bow and an xbox from 2 separate pawn shops. The bow was easy because it had a serial and we had pics, they handed it over no problem. They were probably out $20 bucks and didnt want police involved.

The xbox happened when me and buddy were in High School about 2 hours after the theft. The owner wouldnt give it back despite having him eject the game inside and it being the game we knew was in there. Luckily my buddy’s uncle was a cop and a call to a white shirt later we had the xbox back.

To keep this on topic, record your serial numbers!!!

 

[Trey Veston]

To reduce the chance of firearm thieves targeting your vehicle put one of the hollowing bumper stickers on your ride: "Ban Assault Weapons", "I support Bernie"," Soccer Mom", "Green Peace" or something similar. I call it Urban Camouflage.

I put a "Yuma Art Center" sticker on my back window last month after I got back from visiting there with my family. I actually went to the open air art gallery and bought a couple of pieces. Not all conservatives are tasteless heathens with lighted beer signs for decor (Ok, well in the garage).

 

[boom boom]

Pawn shops and scrap yards are still like this. I have personally retrieved a bow and an xbox from 2 separate pawn shops. The bow was easy because it had a serial and we had pics, they handed it over no problem. They were probably out $20 bucks and didnt want police involved.

The xbox happened when me and buddy were in High School about 2 hours after the theft. The owner wouldnt give it back despite having him eject the game inside and it being the game we knew was in there. Luckily my buddy’s uncle was a cop and a call to a white shirt later we had the xbox back.

To keep this on topic, record your serial numbers!!!

Around hereabouts, they actually have regulated metals with all sorts of restrictions on the scrap dealer. You can find your state's at https://www.scrapmonster.com/scrap-laws

 

[lemaymiami]

A bit more on that whole "scrap metal" deal.... Anytime you go into a jurisdiction with signs up saying "we buy gold" you can bet you're in a heavy burglary zone... Stolen jewelry can quickly be converted into melted down metal and separate precious or semi-precious stones or from that point into newly made "custom jewelry". Remember for thieves it's not as much about stealing as it is about converting the property taken into cash, drugs, or other wanted items.... Firearms with serial numbers (since 1968 a required item) can't be easily converted to legitimate usage at all (fortunately). If it was possible to remove or alter a firearm's serial number without leaving a trace that it had been done (nearly impossible if viewed by anyone with basic knowledge of firearms serial numbers...) we'd have an exponential increase in thefts of guns...

You can bet that any community that allows the easy buying and selling of "scrap metals" will have serious theft/burglary numbers... At least that's my take on it... A very good bad example was years ago in Vegas when Tony Spilotro (the Ant) ran a high end burglary crew along with all his other bad stuff - he also had a jewelry store that did "custom jewelry" as part of his fencing operation. We saw similar bad stuff down here in paradise during the early years of the first crack epidemic... though not on the same scale as the Spilotro operation... Yes, eventually he was killed by the nice folks in Chicago that he worked for (nominally...) but laws about scrap metals need to be carefully thought out and enforced in my opinion. Consider it a form of pest control...

 

[Robert]

Seems we've reach the end of this one.