Reply #39: what seems to have been lost in the flurry [View All]

[iverglas]

... of the usual blah blah ...

During the first raid, in July 2003, he and two other men broke into a gun cabinet and took five shotguns, a longbow, arrows, a crossbow and bolts.

Gee. I wonder why they broke into the house in the first place.

I'll bet they just picked it at random, and had no idea at all that there was a small arsenal of weapons on the premises, stored in an easily defeatable protective device.

Had there been no firearms on the premises, or had the firearms on the premises been stored in an actually safe storage device (which might not have worked were the householder home and were it possible to coerce him into opening it), I wonder whether the break-in would have occurred.

Damn. That's a tough one.