[Ironbarr]

http://www.tulsaworld.com/BreakingNewsStory.asp?ID=050921_Br_abrk6000

[GI Jane]

OMG! One was found in a crime scene in NY, suprise suprise!

I bet there were alot of nice one there I'd like to get my hands on...hand cannon sounds pretty cool too.

[El Rojo]

6000 missing guns! Can you say inside job? How did they possibly expect to keep this hidden forever?

[Azrael256]

hand cannon sounds pretty cool too It is the cover shot for the article "The Gunpowder Revolution." If you take a history class at this school, you'll get a copy of it. If you're a history major, like me, you have no less than fifteen copies, and can recite it from memory.

[4v50 Gary]

About 85% of all thefts from museums in this country are in-house. Thieves range from Directors down to janitors. It's now a federal offense to steal any object valued at 10K plus or over 100 years old from a museum. The FBI has a couple of agents who specialize in museum theft too.

[Daniel T]

6000 would be a drop in the bucket for that museum, but that's a damn shame in any case. I've been there several times, and never got to stay long enough.

BTW, the link posted no longer pulls up the article.

EDIT: or maybe it requires a log-in. Can someone post the contents please?

[ShackleMeNot]

The article link no longer works. This has to be the Jim Davis Meseum in Claremore, correct? If it is I've been there many times and it's sad to hear they lost so many guns.

[ShackleMeNot]

Yep.

Here's another link to the story:
Link to article. (http://www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp?S=3879189&nav=6uy6)

Also interesting timing:
Link to another article. (http://www.claremoreprogress.com/archive/article22117)

[4v50 Gary]

ASSOCIATED PRESS

CLAREMORE, Okla. -- State auditors say some six-thousand weapons are missing from the JM Davis Arms and Historical Museum in Claremore and some have been found at crime scenes.

State Auditor Jeff McMahan says when the state-owned museum was founded in the 1960s its inventory listed more than 20,000 firearms and related items. He says there are now only about 14,000.

And McMahan says he's heard one missing gun was found at a crime scene in New York and another at a crime scene in Muskogee. And Claremore Police Chief Mickey Perry says a machine gun from the museum was found in Maine in November.

Museum director Duane Kyler denies any guns are missing.

The museum's Web site says its collection includes a 500-year-old Chinese hand-cannon, the world's smallest automatic pistol and guns used by Jesse James, Pretty Boy Floyd, Emmett Dalton and Cole Younger.



Copyright 2005 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

[4v50 Gary]

Slatton charged with museum burglary
Originally published on Thursday, September 22


By Linda Martin
Progress Staff Writer

A 24-year-old former employee of the J. M. Davis Gun Museum has been charged with second-degree burglary in Rogers County District Court after he used museum keys to enter the facility with the intent of burglary.

According to an arrest warrant, Michael David Slatton, used the keys to enter the museum about 3 a.m. on July 18 under the pretense of retrieving his mother’s cell phone. His mother, Linda Slatton, is a museum employee.

When Slatton opened the door with the key, went inside when the burglary alarm went off, alerting Claremore police.

When police arrived they found the museum door had been opened.

Officers reviewed the surveillance video “which clearly showed a white male use a key to gain access to the museum.”

Before entering the museum the suspect tried to disarm the alarm system with the key but failed.

He then opened the door and went in but quickly ran out when the alarm sounded.

Museum employees Susan and Kimberly Thompson, who had worked with Slatton at the museum, identified Slatton as the suspect.

Slatton said he panicked when the alarm went off and he ran out, went home and told his mother what he’d done.

Officers then talked with Slatton’s mother who attempted to establish an alibi for her son, saying he was at home asleep when the crime occurred. She did not tell officers her son had admitted what he’d done to her.

[Commissar Gribb]

The FBI has a couple of agents who specialize in museum theft too.

I heard they're still looking for Carmen Sandiago

:neener:

[50 Freak]

The FBI has a couple of agents who specialize in museum theft too.


I heard they're still looking for Carmen Sandiago

Does this mean they caught Waldo?