Gun control advocates, trying to sell the idea of gun restrictions, routinely claim that it’s entirely possible to respect the right to keep and bear arms while creating laws that keep guns out of criminal hands. Of course, these restrictions never impact criminals because criminals don’t go to gun stores.
That’s been my position at least.
However, something happened in Pennsylvania that made me realize I’m not entirely correct. Plenty of them do, in fact, get guns from gun stores and do so without a straw purchase.
It’s just that gun control that claims to respect our gun rights is never going to prevent something like this.
Police are investigating after a Bethel Park gun store was broken into early Monday morning.
Bethel Park Police and a forensics unit from Allegheny County were on scene at the Allegheny Arms & Gun Works store located in the Millennium Shops along Library Road in Bethel Park early Monday morning.
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“We know that four suspects broke into this business and removed the firearms – the amount [of firearms] is undetermined at this time,” said ATF Assistant Special Agent Joseph Price.
Police said the break-in happened before 4:30 a.m. and they didn’t waste any time.
“They were probably in the store for under four minutes,” Agent Price said. “In and out, four minutes.”
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The investigators said that in the latest burglary, the suspects shot their way in and used hatchets to bust up display cases.
The suspects are believed to be four white males, all wearing black.
Authorities believe the vehicle used was stolen and if you know anything, you’re being asked to contact Bethel Park Police.
The fact that they were in and out tells us they knew what they were after.
Of course, it was a gun store. Of course they knew what they were after.
It’s pretty obvious they were after guns.
None of those thieves completed a Form 4473 or a NICS check. They didn’t talk to a clerk to make sure they were stealing the gun for themselves. Nothing at all.
And don’t think of a moment this doesn’t matter.
See, those who want guns will find a way to get guns. That often involves theft, which means that sooner or later, gun grabbers will start grabbing guns. “You can’t have handguns because criminals use those. You don’t need a handgun for hunting, anyway,” they’ll argue, all while continuing to pretend they’re respecting your Second Amendment rights.
They’ll do this all while knowing this isn’t the only avenue for crime guns out there, but that won’t matter.
No matter what you do, gun control will never work because criminals will just shift in how they get guns. Even now, the bad guys are listening to news reports about so-called ghost guns and figuring that’s the way they should go. Somehow find a way to ban all of that and they’ll just find something else–though banning 3D printing isn’t likely to work either.
You’ll never stop the bad guys from getting guns. The only people that will ever be stopped are law-abiding folks like you and me.
Which, if we’re being frank, is really who they want disarmed anyway.
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