The Largest Source of Stolen Guns? Parked Cars.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/25/us/illegal-guns-parked-cars.html
https://archive.ph/EUXfc

The Largest Source of Stolen Guns? Parked Cars.
The growing number of firearms kept in vehicles has become a new point of contention in the debates over regulating gun safety.
By Richard Fausset
March 25, 2023

NASHVILLE — On a Sunday in January 2022, a Glock 9mm pistol, serial number AFDN559, disappeared from a Dodge Charger parked near a Midtown Nashville bank after someone smashed in the rear driver’s side window.

Ten months later, Nashville police officers arrested three teenagers suspected in a series of shootings, and discovered a cache of weapons in a nearby apartment. Among them was AFDN559. Forensic analysts would later tie the Glock to three shootings, including an attack in August that wounded four youths and another that wounded a 17-year-old girl in September.

In a country awash with guns, with more firearms than people, the parked car, or in many cases the parked pickup truck, has become a new flashpoint in the debates over how and whether to regulate gun safety.

There is little question about the scope of the problem. A report issued in May by the gun-control group Everytown for Gun Safety analyzed FBI crime data in 271 American cities, large and small, from 2020 and found that guns stolen from vehicles have become the nation’s largest source of stolen firearms — with an estimated 40,000 guns stolen from cars in those cities alone.

In some cities, organized groups of young people have swept through neighborhoods and areas around sports arenas, looking for weapons left under car seats or in unlocked center consoles or glove compartments. Their work is occasionally made easier by motorists who advertise their right to bear arms with car window stickers promoting favored gun brands, or that declare “molon labe” — a defiant message from ancient Sparta, which roughly translates as “come and take them.”

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"Steal My Gun, Please. It's In My Vehicle"

[ProudMNDemocrat]

1. IDIOTS who advertise this, deserve to have their cars broken into if they leave their guns there.

DUH!

[dem4decades]

2. The early Perry Masons the murder weapon was always stolen from a car.

Looks like we're making America great again.

[sanatanadharma]

3. In every case of stolen gun, the owner should be guilty of a crime

New laws if necessary! Such irresponsible gun owners are not victims; they are aiding and abetting criminal gun activity.

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. Those NRA and "Protected by .357" stickers

save gun thieves a lot of time. And even they have a vehicle gun safe, they are the ones who will get a broken window.

[hunter]

5. Advertising one's gun love around here is asking for your home or car to be broken into.

Burglars aren't really interested in ordinary consumer crap.

[70sEraVet]

6. So, a guy buys a gun to protect himself from armed criminals in his neighborhood.

He advertises that he has a weapon, the weapon is stolen by neighborhood criminals, which then become armed.
It sure sounds like we'd be better off if the first guy didnt have a weapon.

[TheBlackAdder]

7. They love The Punisher skull, but are too stupid to realize that The Punisher hates fascists.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

8. makes sense

[Takket]

9. pass gun storage and safety laws and prosecute the people who leave them in their car