Thread: Stolen .338L in Ashburton

Originally Posted by Savage1

There were another couple of rareish guns that were stolen recently.

One was a H&K MR308 and the other was a Rem m700 in some fancy boom whizz calibre and stock, had a NF scope. I'll have a look when I get back to work. Stolen from somewhere in Auckland if I recall correctly.

The scopes would be the easiest thing for them to fence, do they even have serial numbers (I dont have anything like a Nighforce, but I have all my rifles' serial numbers recorded, and no idea if the scopes even have them)? What's a middle of the range Nightforce worth second hand? Easy money, plus they don't have to worry about being caught with a firearm and facing a separate charge for that.

To start with: I think we should be doubling (at least) burglary sentences, and a mandatory custodial sentence too. It's a massive cost to this country, and pretty much every single person I know has been a victim at least once (my parents for instance have been hit 8 times in 15 years). It does my head in the way it's treated almost like parking infringements by the courts

/endrant