Exercising the Right
No One Ever Said Criminals Were Smart
Chron.com out of Houston reported on April 17 about a firearm store in the Memorial area that has been targeted by criminals on multiple occasions. The store, Full Armor Gun Range, has a long history of burglary attempts, with a recent one taking place last January. After that incident, the store owners decided to have a security guard stay overnight and keep watch over the store, but it wouldn’t be long before criminals again tried to burglarize the store. In an incident on April 16, burglars driving a U-Haul truck crashed into the store in an effort to break in. The suspects quickly fled the scene when they were unable to gain access.
Police were just beginning to investigate that U-Haul attack when criminals once again targeted the store. The security guard working overnight at the store witnessed a car quickly drive up and three men hurry out. The three men then began trying to break in to the store through the main entrance. Before they were able to bust the door open, the security guard opened fire on the burglary suspects. From the initial reporting, it wasn’t clear if the suspects returned fire, but the security guard appeared to be a good shot, as his bullets apparently hit the suspects. The injured burglars ran back to their vehicle and drove off, but they didn’t get far before they crashed their car. The security guard quickly dialed 911 to report what had occurred, and the responding officers discovered the crashed vehicle, as well as its three occupants suffering from gunshot wounds.
Houston Police Department Lieutenant Larry Crowson questioned why these criminals seemed to keep trying to break in to the store at night when the owners locked all the guns up in a nearly impenetrable safe. “They take all the guns and put them in a very large vault at night. That would be almost impossible for people to break in, so I do not know what these guys think they are doing breaking the front door open. Once they got inside, they could not get in the safe anyway,” Lt. Crowson told ABC13.
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