Calgary Shooting Centre BROKEN INTO !!! Oct10/11 - 2012

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I'm merely pointing out the obvious: That was no ordinary business and the highest level of security should have been in place. Those firearms will soon be converted into "weapons" for criminals. A liquor store heist ain't the same thing.

As for billy goat dongs, I reckon that animal could use three of them: Have a look at where that motorbike is parked in front of the windows. No concrete post or barriers of any kind there -- and that's where the crims went in.

I call that lax security...especially if other gun shops are using vaults for overnight storage on top of first line barriers/alarms.
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LMASF know when to stop typing
 
Obviously Calgary Shooting Center is probably too busy to monitor this thread now. We are closing it as it will not be fair to CSC when they cannot make a presence at this moment.
 
To all of our customers and members, thanks for your support and kind words. We are working hard to overcome this setback and get back up and running at 100%. For those worried about their property, rest assured that except for two consignment guns all customer guns were safe. We will make good on the consignment guns too.

We are of course also working hard to ensure that something like this can not happen here again. Unfortunately some of these changes will make the store a little less user friendly and we apologize in advance for the coming changes.
 
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To all of our customers and members, thanks for your support and kind words. We are working hard to overcome this setback and get back up and running at 100%. For those worried about their property, rest assured that except for two consignment guns all customer guns were safe. We will make good on the consignment guns too.

We are of course also working hard to ensure that something like this can not happen here again. Unfortunately some of these changes will make the store a little less user friendly and we apologize in advance for the coming changes.
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Good to hear, will give a call on monday
 
Shooting Centre said:
To all of our customers and members, thanks for your support and kind words. We are working hard to overcome this setback and get back up and running at 100%. For those worried about their property, rest assured that except for two consignment guns all customer guns were safe. We will make good on the consignment guns too.

We are of course also working hard to ensure that something like this can not happen here again. Unfortunately some of these changes will make the store a little less user friendly and we apologize in advance for the coming changes.
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Real customers shouldn't feel that the extra precautions isn't reasonable considering the circumstances... Its the ones that aren't there for the proper intentions that will find it annoying...Hopefully they find the ones who were responsible who did this...
 
To those of you arguing that security was "lax" or insufficient - please give your heads a shake on what your insinuations would actually result in, should your ill thought ramblings be taken seriously.

As another poster stated - they were stored legally. 'nuff said. The vendor did nothing wrong and complied.
As other posters stated - locks are only meant to slow people down enough until the good guys arrive. If the bad guys know the place well enough or have enough skill and experience - that slowdown becomes minimal.
By your insinuations that they "didnt do enough" - what do you suggest? For one to say "into a vault", well - someone can break into a vault. Then someone will say "into a bank". Well, that's been done before as well.
There is a logical limit we need to apply on what is "good enough" to keep the general population safe. We do not want to live in under a Stalinistic regime. So why push for it on what the 'minimum' should be.

Think that would mean in our own homes with our own collections? Solid steel doors. No ground floor windows. Vaults. Alarm systems. Guard dogs. Security guards. Whistling parrots. Video surveillance.
But wait - no. You only have one firearm you say - it shouldn't apply. But what about the guy with 3? 5? 8? 15? Now you'd introduce layers into that same model.

So with all of that said --- they were stored legally. Which is still at a pretty high standard. Isn't our common complaint is that we dont have enough rights to own, store and use firearms without the government dictating every time we move?

As I said... please give your head a shake, and remember who the criminals are, and who the victims are.

Good luck to you CSC --- I hope you're able to move forward without a detrimental impact to your business.
 
You will not find any of those stolen guns in here. There's a 100-200% mark up value on the streets for firearms. Hopefully the douche bags are caught before the guns are sold.
 
There's no point worrying whether a stolen gun is used in a crime. The crime would be committed with or without that particular firearm. The stolen ones might go into the pool of criminal weapons, or they could just rust away in someone's sock drawer. The police will treat this like any other robbery. The only people who'll make a big deal of it, are the anti-gun folks.

I had a handgun stolen from my house, 30 years ago. I expected the cops to put me through the ringer, but they blamed the thief, not the victim. They ended up finding it (the thief actually lived downstairs). I suspect these Calgary guns could end up in Vancouver or Edmonton. They're too hot in Calgary. Anyone caught with one will be on the hook for the break-in, as well as the firearms charge.
 
That sucks...just goes to show what would happen all the time if we were ever forced to keep all our guns locked up at the range or some "firearm storage facility."
 
I think the best thing that can be said on CGN, is that CSC deserves support from it's customers to help recover from this outrageous criminal act.

You don't kick someone when they're down. Let's show some honourable support, instead of nit-picking "could-of"/ "should-have" comments.

Of course they will increase security as a result of this.

The thieves have shown that a successful break-in was possible, this cannot be undone, so one has to evolve to counter future threats.

Our world is changing and this is going to make it harder to operate a gun shop, how many other stores are vulnerable to the same type of criminal MO.

I wish CSC all the best and will check their site for stuff I can buy to help pay for their losses, we can all help, so lets do it and keep a great business running.
 
Would they be allowed to release the serial numbers and models of the stolen equipment ?
Although Canada is big, i think the marketing for guns is fairly closed and if even 1 of the guns turn up they could possibly trace it back.
I know I would want a list of serials incase I purchase a rifle off EE and find out later it was one of the stolen ones.
We should make thread with a list of stolen equipment / just serials we purchasers can cross check to see if it was stolen.
 
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