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I'm not sure if this is the right section to post this is, so feel free to move this to a more appropriate section.
I want to get as much "outsider" perspective on this situation as possible. My wife and I went out of town to have an early Christmas with our families. I returned home Sunday night to find my front door completely kicked in. I immediately called 911, not knowing if someone was still in the house. The police cleared the house and they asked me to come in. They said it looked like the criminal got spooked and left before taking anything. Nothing in the home was disturbed, nothing was out of place. The officers went room to room with me to make sure nothing had been taken. I was still in a bit of shock, but nothing appeared to have been moved. No drawers were open, nothing on counters or desks were out of place. We went down to the basement to look at my gun collection, which is kept in a lockable glass gun cabinet. The cabinet was still locked, glass intact, and no guns missing. So after being a little shaken up, the officers decided that since nothing was missing or vandalized, the perp must have gotten spooked and left before taking anything.
It wasn't until after the officers left that I realized my shoulder holster hanging on the corner of the headboard was missing my beloved no dash 66! I called the police back and added a supplementary property loss to the police report. I provided the S/N, make, model, etc. But now that I've had some time to think about it, it almost looks as though someone broke into my house specifically for that gun. It's like they made a bee-line straight for the gun and then left. There were a lot of other valuables available such as my wife's jewelry cabinet and other things that are small and valuable. But nothing else was touched. This just seems really odd to me and doesn't sound like a typical burglary where things are moved around, opened up, dumped out, etc to find valuables. Does anyone have thoughts about what this could have been? People at work were saying that it sounded like the perp might have even known me because they didn't trash my house taking all kinds of valuables and went specifically for one thing. But it couldn't have been someone who knows me very well because I have several more valuable guns in the basement. Thoughts?
I want to get as much "outsider" perspective on this situation as possible. My wife and I went out of town to have an early Christmas with our families. I returned home Sunday night to find my front door completely kicked in. I immediately called 911, not knowing if someone was still in the house. The police cleared the house and they asked me to come in. They said it looked like the criminal got spooked and left before taking anything. Nothing in the home was disturbed, nothing was out of place. The officers went room to room with me to make sure nothing had been taken. I was still in a bit of shock, but nothing appeared to have been moved. No drawers were open, nothing on counters or desks were out of place. We went down to the basement to look at my gun collection, which is kept in a lockable glass gun cabinet. The cabinet was still locked, glass intact, and no guns missing. So after being a little shaken up, the officers decided that since nothing was missing or vandalized, the perp must have gotten spooked and left before taking anything.
It wasn't until after the officers left that I realized my shoulder holster hanging on the corner of the headboard was missing my beloved no dash 66! I called the police back and added a supplementary property loss to the police report. I provided the S/N, make, model, etc. But now that I've had some time to think about it, it almost looks as though someone broke into my house specifically for that gun. It's like they made a bee-line straight for the gun and then left. There were a lot of other valuables available such as my wife's jewelry cabinet and other things that are small and valuable. But nothing else was touched. This just seems really odd to me and doesn't sound like a typical burglary where things are moved around, opened up, dumped out, etc to find valuables. Does anyone have thoughts about what this could have been? People at work were saying that it sounded like the perp might have even known me because they didn't trash my house taking all kinds of valuables and went specifically for one thing. But it couldn't have been someone who knows me very well because I have several more valuable guns in the basement. Thoughts?