2 Guns, Bible Stolen From GOP Rep. Tom Graves SUV in Atlanta

[RandySF]

Two guns, a driver’s license, credit cards, birth certificates, a laptop, and a Bible were among the items stolen last weekend from an SUV that belongs to Rep. Tom Graves of Georgia, Atlanta police said.

The Republican congressman and staffer Travis Loudermilk returned to Graves’ GMC Yukon last Saturday night in downtown Atlanta and drove at least a mile before they discovered the items were missing, according to a police report obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Loudermilk is the son of Georgia GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk.

Investigators later determined the likely thief picked the lock on the driver-side door.

“I hope these knuckleheads will read the Bible and make a return,” Graves said in a statement to the AJC Thursday. “Regardless, I’m very grateful for the swift response of the Atlanta Police Department, the U.S. Capitol Police and other law enforcement officers. I’m confident they will see this incident through to its conclusion.”

The perpetrators apparently swiped numerous highly sensitive financial and identification documents from the vehicle.

Graves' congressional ID, bank cards, a checkbook, passport and Social Security papers were also missing, he told police.


https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/tom-graves-bible-guns-looted

[CottonBear]

1. WTF? Only a total idiot would leave all those items in a vehicle.

Why did he and where was he going and what was he doing with all that stuff in the vehicle?

[Historic NY]

3. +1

How guns get in criminal hands, stupid people making it easy.

[demigoddess]

8. agree totally. couldn't he take the briefcase with him? A woman would not leave

such items in a car, locked or not.

[wishstar]

11. Especially on a Saturday night in downtown Atlanta

Very careless especially since Atlanta is notorious for car break-ins according to my friends and relatives who have lived or visited there.

[CottonBear]

13. I live in Georgia.

I would never leave important items and documents in a locked vehicle in my own Georgia town or, especially, in Atlanta.

Heck, I had my W-2 form with me yesterday on my way home from work. I got home and immediately put the W-2 form in my locked fireproof document box.

Remember the GA county election official who had electronic/digital poll machines stolen from his personal/privately owned vehicle which was parked at a suburban Metro Atlanta area strip mall prior to the 2016 elections?

[Angry Dragon]

2. Some of the items seem strange to be carrying around.....................

[Renew Deal]

4. Were the guns properly stored?

If not, the police should deal with it.

[AJT]

6. It's Georgia, probably aren't a lot of rules when it comes to guns.

[bullwinkle428]

5. Show us the REAL birth certificate, Graves!

[hunter]

7. Two more guns on the street.

This is where gun fetishes take us.

[dawg day]

9. Does this sound likely?

[secondwind]

10. Who leaves a passport or Social Security information or financial papers in a car? And two guns?

What a strange story.

[safeinOhio]

12. If a man takes your Bible,

offer him your Glock too.

[MrScorpio]

14. Screw all that other stuff...

I only want to know what's on that laptop's browser history.

[ryan_cats]

15. I hope

I hope they find that Bible. It is dangerous in any hands and is capable of causing more destruction than a nuclear weapon.

[milestogo]

16. Were the guns and the bible a matching set?

[Lee-Lee]

17. Thats why I have a small handgun safe bolted to the floor under my seat

Work often takes me places I can’t carry like Federal facilities, and I find that a better solution than locking them in the trunk.

In a SUV where a trunk isn’t an option good secure storage is even more important. Having just a piece of glass between anything of value and a thief isn’t security.

[wishstar]

18. Trunks aren't safe either as a friend of mine found out in Atlanta after having items stolen

My friend was there for a conference and left her car in parking garage for several hours, leaving some items in the locked trunk that were stolen.

[Lee-Lee]

19. Trunks are generally safer

Nothing is totally safe. If a thief wants to steal something they will.

But trunks are usually less vulnerable because you need a key versus breaking a window and trunk kids are generally harder to open than car doors.

[PufPuf23]

20. What an unlikely assortment of things to have in a vehicle particularly

birth certificates.

First impression is that this is a made up story for attention.

Second thought is that the theft could be a set up.

Be interesting where or if the guns turn up and if the sensitive financial and identification items are used.

That a Bible was included in the theft and that Rep Graves is GOP causes my immediate distrust of anything about the reported event.

[KG]

21. oh, i see. another responsible gun owner.