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Kenneth Lew

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Guys/Gals,

BEWARE OF ADVERTISING YOUR FIREARMS COLLECTIONS AT THE GUN RANGE/INTERNET/ETC.

Yesterday @ 10:30 pm, while coming back from a gun range, I was followed/trailed by a vehicle almost to the footsteps of my house. I did not notice the anything suspicious till I started to get into my neighborhood and noticed the same car following me from about 5 blocks from the range. Since, I always take a certain precautions to determine if I’m being followed (driving patterns) while coming home from the range, it really scared the s#$t out of me. I proceed to do an evasive driving and the car continued to follow me. After about 15 minutes, I broke contact and started to follow the vehicle while it tried to evade me for about 20 minutes.

I got the license plate (definite) and vehicle description. The worst part is that the vehicle was customized in a gang-banger sort of way. .

I’m worried that they may already know where I live. There have been a lot of home invasions in the six police beats in my area. My vehicle’s registration does not reflect where I live.

I know they followed me for my guns.

Kenneth Lew
 
That IS scary.....If you have a CCW..use it......everyone in your home should be extra aware and know what to do in the event of any attack.....lock and load my friend....stay safe and hunker down.......good luck bro.:cool:
 
That's a pretty spooky thing to happen, but there is a solution. Take all your valuables to a safety deposit box, your guns to a buddy's safe, and keep a loaded .45 on your person along with two spare mags. Keep a 12 gauge riot gun by your side, loaded. Report the license number and the incident to have it on record. Make sure your family knows of the incident, and are as prepared as possible. Live this way for the next two months. If nothing happens, you are probably homefree. If something happens, you are prepared.

Following the car was not a good idea. Evading it was.
 
Good move on getting their license plate number. Be sure to report the incident to the police so that it's on record. I've only ever been followed that way once, a long, long time ago when I was barely more than a kid. I was out with a girlfriend and we noticed a car following us around. I made a few random turns to verify we were being followed, then drove directly to the local state police barracks which was only a few minutes from my house. They parked alongside me and one guy got out of the car before noticing where we were. He got back in the car and they left with some alacrity.

I never actually reported the incident but should have; I thought maybe they were just going to hide someplace and wait for me to get out of the car or something. I drove the GF home (being cautious not to take a direct route and watching for followers), saw her safely inside, and went home myself. Being a kid (16? 17?), I had mostly shrugged it off by morning.

Don't brush it off like I did; call it in and report it.
 
CAN people be THAT dumb?
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Yes. There was a thread here a couple or 3 months ago about a road-rager who followed one of us right into the parking lot of a gun range.
 
Good reminder.

Applies to any hobby, any shopping. It pays to NOT advertise. Many years ago the BGs became real bold. In the 'diamond district' in NY it was no uncommon for delivery persons to be robbed of 'parcels and packages' BGs just started stealing the delivery vehicles themselves. Get the whole truck because it was obvious and probable as to what was being deivered to a certain area.

At the World Shoot in San Antonio all those out of town license plates , and rental vehicles , BGs had a real good probability of making a good haul. They have proved this . Same for any "shoots".

Decals on vehicles advertise. Loading and unloading firearm related items in the confines of garage keeps private from neighbors. I don't use firearm obvious "luggage" to and from my apt. Leaving the gun store, range, resturants from obvious hunting /shooting areas.

Due to nature of a business I grew up and stayed in for 35 years, I've always had to be aware ( SA) watch six, and I've CCW-ed. I CCW to and from range, hunting, gunstores...besides everywhere else.

Don't have a routine, use the buddy system with vehicles too, take a defensive driving course.

Another TIP: I know many states require license and registration to be on visor or glove box. Vehicle for service or Car Washes are vulnerable. Lady had nice jewelry, employee obtained name / addy/ and was bold enough to make a duplicate house key while she waited for car to be vacumed , car washed...etc. I know this lady, helped on her case,she came home to be robbed and assaulted. BGs picked her because car wash employees were casing the customers. Jlry, guns, reciepts for various valubables left in vehicles just advertising.

My mom will have to be apologetic and polite when and if she gets pulled over, her info is in truck. A mini verson is printed and in her wallet. House key stays separate.

I keep CCWs at home. Everthing else is off site, in a walk- in vault.

BGs not nesassarily dumb, just wired different.
 
definatly have a few locked an loaded.

I had a guy follow me one night, so i drove to the local police station but for some reason he stopped following me.

and you know i had my 2 inch facing mill ready to roll. no CCW or loaded weapons allowed in vehicles allowed in ohio.

So i carry a facing mill. not a weapon but a tool from work:neener:

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for those that don't know a facing mill is the the big round one in the very front left corner. mine weighs about 5 lbs, and those teeth are a sharp as could be.
 
Thank GOD, you have guns in the first place. As for people dumb enough to enter and threaten a household they know has guns in the home, that just never made since to me. It is scary, i know. Me and my wife were just married, i owned a Ruger P90, .45acp. Heard Glass shatter, i immediately jumped up, and grabbed the pistol. It was a picture that had fallen off the wall, and broke, but i was not fully convinced. So i stepped out the door, and i heard voices walking off, down the road. So go figure, whatever it was, there was someone outside. Be thankful we have guns to protect our families. Be careful!
 
Very scary, my friend. I was followed once on the way home from work, waaaay back when I was in high school and I worked at McDonalds. The driver was trying pretty hard to attach the front of his car to the back of mine, and during a merge, tried to run me into the opposite lane. [Ha! A smogged-out Buick taking on a '69 Chevy pickup with a 350? :rolleyes: ]

So yeah, I hit the gas and started taking round-about routes to my house. I didn't want to get pulled over, so I was trying to keep my speed moderate, and it seemed that I couldn't lose him. I came to a chicane in the road and turned off my lights [this was at night] and didn't hit my brakes through the turns. Since he couldn't see me, I lost him.

It was one of the scariest things to ever happen to me.

In my case, though, he never found out where I lived. In your case, I would do as a previous poster suggested, and wear a loaded sidearm with 2 reloads, and keep a loaded shotty nearby while at home. Hide your other weapons and valuables. Make it a hard and fruitless endeavor to break into your house for gain. ;)

Good luck, man. Let us know how this unfolds.

Wes
 
If i was heading home and convinced that i was being followed (i.e. drove around the block in a figure 8 and they were still on me), I'd probably call the police on my cell, get on a major road and report a suspicious vehicle swerving all over the place. Give a description of the car following me. Trust me, they'll get pulled over.
 
Noticing something quite interesting about this thread...

There are those who complain about police being too slow, JBT's, iditiots, and infringing on out rights, but...

Appears the overwhelming response here is to call the police immediately when you are being followed.

I'm not saying it is the posters here who are being hypocritical, but this is just my observation.

Seems like we only want the police when we are in immediate danger.

I personally will call the Police if I believe I am being followed. I will also call them anytime I believe I am in danger; but I will also use the tools at my disposale to defend myself.

Just an observation.
 
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well the alternative to calling the police would be to evade or fight

While filling the trailing auto with FMJ or HE has a visceral appeal,
it would certainly be detrimental to long term RKBA

i would find several police officers that use the range,
and see how they want to protect the home turf.

Posting a description at the range
of the perps and the car would alert the range users and the perps.

Anyone bold enough to follow a gunny home could be easily set up for a sting.

They prolly had someone watching the firingline.
Any chance the range has a video?

<tinfoilhat>Any possibility it was ATF?</TFH>
 
This is the kind of thing that convinced me to get my CHL. If it escalates to the point of using deadly force, vehicle or handgun, I am prepared to defend my family and my own life. Calling 911 would be to document the threat prior to use of deadly force or as an aid to a subsequent investigation should a break in occur while you are not home. LE is not funded in such a way as to arrive in time to deal with a situation very often. Live one condition higher for a while. Watch your six.

Safe packin'
 
"...If you have a CCW..use it..." For what? No crime was committed. Is it illegal to follow somebody what you are? Nope, Ken should have driven into the cop parking lot of the nearest Police Station and gone in, licence number in hand.
 
How do you know they were after your guns? I see nothing in your post to indicate that they were at the range or followed you from the range.
 
Oh, fahchrissake! Has this become Tactical Nitpicking Central?

Consider this - Bangers know that the subject in question was at a range. That means he has firearms. In St. Louis, to be legal, I have to have 'em cased and locked and in the trunk.

I try not to go to ranges in the city.

Besides, could be a case of the bangers doing some sort of initiation, showin' their peers that they do, in fact, clank when they walk. Don't assume that criminals will think the same way you do.

Besides, criminals may just walk up and start shooting. The average citizen, even with CCW, is gonna think about it first. Surprise wins.
 
Don't assume the BG's will enter your house when you are home. It is NOT stupid for them to ID your residence and come back to rummage when you are gone.
 
Think about it -

If you wanted to know where to STEAL firearms
from individuals (as opposed to a shop which is
PROBABLY better secured), where would you
look ?? Why, go to a range and get license #'s
&/or follow patrons home (whoever these 'persons'
are, they know very little, Thank God, about tailing
someone).
Now, come back at your leasure (depending on how
much risk you're willing to take and.......
you get the idea.
Scary, VERY SCARY.
Watch your 6, keep HIGH SA at least for a while.
Move your collection, if possible, for a while,
and stay prepared.
Good luck and Godspeed.
 
There are those who complain about police being too slow, JBT's, iditiots, and infringing on out rights, but...

Appears the overwhelming response here is to call the police immediately when you are being followed.

I'm not saying it is the posters here who are being hypocritical, but this is just my observation.
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I'm failing to see what's interesting about what you've noticed. How is recognizing that the police are not going to be in a position to save you inconsistent with the decision to call them if you are being followed?

- Gabe
 
My obersavtion is that there are those that will criticize the police for everything, but are sometimes the first to call them when they need assistance.

That's all.
 
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