Someone broke into the house by breaking out a back window, then yanking a security gate through/out of the wood door frame either late yesterday or early this night. Came home from the GF's house at 1:30 am to get ready to go hunting, and discovered this. First a-hole extreme-anti-gun cop that came out is a whole nuther story in itself, but his supervisor was a top-notch, outstanding pro-gun officer, thankfully. Norris is the last name of the top notch cop.
The burglars must have run out of time or got scared at some point because they didn't take very much, luckily - near as I can tell, only two guns and a watch were taken -- but they left one rifle, one airgun, a Leupold prismatic sight, and other stuff like new in package (with receipts) Christmas gifts, optical equipment, fishing & hunting equip, tools, $1,600 PSE crossbow, 3 bows, electronics, and musical instruments in plain sight. They left generator, air compressor, and such in the garage too. Looks like they had a good 5 minutes to search before leaving but didn't spend too terribly much time.
Anyway, point is (points are):
1. Please be on the lookout for the one of the two stolen guns for which I know the serial number: It's a CZ 75 D Compact PCR 9mm pistol, serial number A669546. They also took a Norinco Hawk 982 12 ga pump shotgun, all black, with a nylon buttstock shell holder. Both fully loaded. If I find the serial number of the Norinco, I'll post it here. Believe it not, they took the CZ out of the holster it was in, took it but left the holster. But they did take the 'tactical' scabbard thing that the Norinco was in (desert tan). Weird. I guess they don't like Gould & Goodrich paddle holsters.
2. Security bars aren't really much security. But they did slow them down a bit.
3. Stay vigilant, and stay armed - I could easily have come home and walked in on them unknowingly, as no signs were evident from looking at the front of the house and front door - as they came and went through the back. Luckily, they were gone.
4. There are SOME real anti-gun a-hole cops in OKC that treat YOU like the suspect and threaten to arrest you when they come out to a call, just because you've armed yourself, even if you let them know in no uncertain terms before they get there that you're armed and exactly what you look like. So be ready for that. Whole nuther story that I can tell later when I calm down.
5. Most importantly, along with #3, lock up ALL guns when you leave the house, including your standard bedside home defense weapons. These are the ones that were stolen. So now I feel guilty and responsible for arming some jackasses - probably methheads - with two nice reliable weapons that they can now use against me and you and everyone else. I'm sorry. I apologize to all here and the general public for my negligence in this regard. I thought that the security bars were pretty decent security, along with the dogs. But they're not. They dogs were just roaming around happily inside as they came in through the back along with the burglar(s) - evidently the criminals did their thing while the dogs just watched them and milled around. Luckily they did not hurt the dogs. Quite oddly, they didn't come through the large doggie door, but broke the window 3 feet away and crawled through that instead, even though they had clearly 'made friends with' the dogs.
6. Make sure you keep all your serial numbers of all guns and other valuables written down somewhere.
I'm afraid they're gonna come back for the three safes that they saw and tried unsuccessfully to break into (one of the three). Don't know if I should spend my time today bolting them down better than they are already, or moving them with contents to another location. Or selling guns in order to buy a bigger heavier safe. Kinda feel violated and jumpy here, of course.
Watch your sixes, kiddos. Hopefully just non-violent methheads who will try to unload the guns at pawn or some such, but ya never know....
P.S. One other possible lesson: Keep a good powerful & charged 'tactical' flashlight in your car. All I had was cheapies in the car. When I realized what had happened in the house, I backed out and stayed in the front yard until police arrived, not knowing if anyone was still inside. Well, I would have liked to be able to penetrate the darkness on the sides of the house without getting within, ya know, shotgun range, from the front yard near the street, but the cheap flashlights retrieved from my vehicle weren't nearly powerful enough.
Another thing - hey burglar - joke's on you, buddy - that Breitling's a fake.
The burglars must have run out of time or got scared at some point because they didn't take very much, luckily - near as I can tell, only two guns and a watch were taken -- but they left one rifle, one airgun, a Leupold prismatic sight, and other stuff like new in package (with receipts) Christmas gifts, optical equipment, fishing & hunting equip, tools, $1,600 PSE crossbow, 3 bows, electronics, and musical instruments in plain sight. They left generator, air compressor, and such in the garage too. Looks like they had a good 5 minutes to search before leaving but didn't spend too terribly much time.
Anyway, point is (points are):
1. Please be on the lookout for the one of the two stolen guns for which I know the serial number: It's a CZ 75 D Compact PCR 9mm pistol, serial number A669546. They also took a Norinco Hawk 982 12 ga pump shotgun, all black, with a nylon buttstock shell holder. Both fully loaded. If I find the serial number of the Norinco, I'll post it here. Believe it not, they took the CZ out of the holster it was in, took it but left the holster. But they did take the 'tactical' scabbard thing that the Norinco was in (desert tan). Weird. I guess they don't like Gould & Goodrich paddle holsters.
2. Security bars aren't really much security. But they did slow them down a bit.
3. Stay vigilant, and stay armed - I could easily have come home and walked in on them unknowingly, as no signs were evident from looking at the front of the house and front door - as they came and went through the back. Luckily, they were gone.
4. There are SOME real anti-gun a-hole cops in OKC that treat YOU like the suspect and threaten to arrest you when they come out to a call, just because you've armed yourself, even if you let them know in no uncertain terms before they get there that you're armed and exactly what you look like. So be ready for that. Whole nuther story that I can tell later when I calm down.
5. Most importantly, along with #3, lock up ALL guns when you leave the house, including your standard bedside home defense weapons. These are the ones that were stolen. So now I feel guilty and responsible for arming some jackasses - probably methheads - with two nice reliable weapons that they can now use against me and you and everyone else. I'm sorry. I apologize to all here and the general public for my negligence in this regard. I thought that the security bars were pretty decent security, along with the dogs. But they're not. They dogs were just roaming around happily inside as they came in through the back along with the burglar(s) - evidently the criminals did their thing while the dogs just watched them and milled around. Luckily they did not hurt the dogs. Quite oddly, they didn't come through the large doggie door, but broke the window 3 feet away and crawled through that instead, even though they had clearly 'made friends with' the dogs.
6. Make sure you keep all your serial numbers of all guns and other valuables written down somewhere.
I'm afraid they're gonna come back for the three safes that they saw and tried unsuccessfully to break into (one of the three). Don't know if I should spend my time today bolting them down better than they are already, or moving them with contents to another location. Or selling guns in order to buy a bigger heavier safe. Kinda feel violated and jumpy here, of course.
Watch your sixes, kiddos. Hopefully just non-violent methheads who will try to unload the guns at pawn or some such, but ya never know....
P.S. One other possible lesson: Keep a good powerful & charged 'tactical' flashlight in your car. All I had was cheapies in the car. When I realized what had happened in the house, I backed out and stayed in the front yard until police arrived, not knowing if anyone was still inside. Well, I would have liked to be able to penetrate the darkness on the sides of the house without getting within, ya know, shotgun range, from the front yard near the street, but the cheap flashlights retrieved from my vehicle weren't nearly powerful enough.
Another thing - hey burglar - joke's on you, buddy - that Breitling's a fake.
