Video: Man Steals Firearm Out Of Vehicle

By Tom Knighton

I think most of us have nightmares about our guns being stolen. The idea of not just hundreds of dollars in property being taken from us, but also the possibility of our gun being used to hurt someone else bothers many of us. No one wants to be the victim of a crime like this.

A video from New Orleans shows it happening.

The media report on the theft:

Surveillance video caught a man stealing a gun from inside an unlocked vehicle in the Little Woods area of New Orleans East early Sunday (Jan. 28), according to the NOPD.

About 2 a.m. Sunday, the unidentified man entered the victim’s vehicle in the 7200 block of Wayside Drive and stole a 38-caliber revolver before leaving the scene. The gun, a Smith & Wesson snub-nosed revolver, has three distinct scratches on its barrel, police said.

In the video released Tuesday, the suspected burglar appears toward the beginning of the clip, in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. He can be seen walking along a sidewalk opposite the driveway where the break-in occurred, stopping near a vehicle, before eventually crossing the street.

The break-in occurs about 45 seconds …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms