Thread: Club Broken into, Rifles Stolen

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/133...-hamilton-club
@zimmer beat me to it in off topic)

I should have posted it in Firearm Safety though....

Yeah my old small bore club got broken into years ago (before my time) and all the club rifles got stolen
They cut the safe open with an angle grinder apparently
The fact of the matter is truthfully do we think that a gun club that only gets visitors a couple of times a week at most is a good place to store firearms? I don’t think so personally
Our club lerned from the mistake and from then on the rifles were stored by one of the committee members who we had also appointed club armour talking 15 years since i had anything to do with the club so might have changed

Why don't the police just see who has registered these firearms now? That will surely lead them straight there. Crime solved, durr!

A photo recently on stuff where the boys in blue busted some gang boyos knee deep in illicits including 5 firearms that looked suspiciously like club target rifles with aperture sights etc.

bet the gang heirachy turned the air blue too hwen the realised their Xmas bonuses and product was now in the hands of costers cuddly commandoes.

Oh sorry. I just realised stealing firearms isn't an "activating circumstance"

Drat for them eh.

Update
https://www.waikatotimes.co.nz/nz-ne...Pos=0#cxrecs_s

Still 11 firearms missing...

It's a sad fact that the advent of battery disc grinders with skinny cut off discs has rendered pretty much any security ineffective, short of something so massive as to be prohibitively expensive, not just gun safes either, locked forestry gates, access to walking trails, etc are fair game these days.

Originally Posted by shananah

It's a sad fact that the advent of battery disc grinders with skinny cut off discs has rendered pretty much any security ineffective, short of something so massive as to be prohibitively expensive, not just gun safes either, locked forestry gates, access to walking trails, etc are fair game these days.

This is what the Police in Western Australia are pushing for, 6mm thick safes. This will basically mean all current safes and those available to buy will not be up to the new specifications. It will be prohibitive to import one and illegal to build one.

Originally Posted by nor-west

This is what the Police in Western Australia are pushing for, 6mm thick safes. This will basically mean all current safes and those available to buy will not be up to the new specifications. It will be prohibitive to import one and illegal to build one.

Then you gota lift or trolly jack it inside yr house or storage garage.Be a heavy bitch of a safe.

Originally Posted by Trout

Then you gota lift or trolly jack it inside yr house or storage garage.Be a heavy bitch of a safe.

My gun safe is a home made item, made out of 5mm steel plate, it's about as tall as me (6'2") it weighs slightly north of "heavy as f#ck" during my "inspection" it was noted I was "not messing around when it came to security"

Originally Posted by nor-west

This is what the Police in Western Australia are pushing for, 6mm thick safes. This will basically mean all current safes and those available to buy will not be up to the new specifications. It will be prohibitive to import one and illegal to build one.

The robustness of your storage is meaningless if criminals hold a weapon to your partner or child and say "Give us you gun safe keys" or "Open the safe."

When I renewed my firearms licence during the winter I had a discussion around security with my interviewer/vetter.

We agreed that gunsafes keep out the casual thief, the walk-in & grab what's lying about and skedaddle type of criminal.

The serious thief will either have the tools to break open your safe or weapons to threaten you or your loved ones.

This is why I oppose the registry which in criminal hands is a shopping list of weapons.

By the way the inspection of my safes consisted of opening them so he could feel the bolt heads.
He didn't check to see if there were bolts holding the safes down.
I could have just glued bolt heads the the safe walls and floor.

Did the inspector still give it a shake to make sure it's bolted down ?

Originally Posted by No good names left

Did the inspector still give it a shake to make sure it's bolted down ?

He just smiled and said he had zero concerns about security

makes me wonder if putting plywood boxing around outside and encasing in a good 100mm of concrete has merit..sure as shit would stop it being carried away LOL.