About a week ago, someone broke a window on my car in an effort to break in (the tinting film held the window together and the criminal gave up). The same night, the same person or persons got into my wife's vehicle that she had left unlocked. They rummaged through the junk in her car and tossed the contents of the glove box, but nothing was taken.
When the cop finally arrived to take down the report, he told me that it's now very common for thieves to break into cars looking primarily or only for guns. He relayed to me that he recently took a report from a victim whose car was broken into that contained both a new-in-box television and a not-new gun in the glovebox. The gun was taken, the TV was not.
For anyone who is keeping a gun in their console or glove box or under the seat (when you're not in the car), be aware that, in many areas, theft of such items is getting very common.
And, before anyone asks, no, neither of our cars has any gun-related stickers or other paraphenalia on them... we just got "lucky."
When the cop finally arrived to take down the report, he told me that it's now very common for thieves to break into cars looking primarily or only for guns. He relayed to me that he recently took a report from a victim whose car was broken into that contained both a new-in-box television and a not-new gun in the glovebox. The gun was taken, the TV was not.
For anyone who is keeping a gun in their console or glove box or under the seat (when you're not in the car), be aware that, in many areas, theft of such items is getting very common.
And, before anyone asks, no, neither of our cars has any gun-related stickers or other paraphenalia on them... we just got "lucky."