Products are Flying off Shelves, and Being Stolen

WMClark

They got this guy on video stealing a Trijicon MRO at the Shot show. Vegas is no place to try to get away with anything. If you are out of your house you are on tape in that town.

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Social media is wonderful; it brings some of the best and worst from people. One things for sure though, acting like a jerk, send something unsolicited or inappropriate to a female admin, or cases of stolen valor, and the entire community will rally around making you famous-and not in a good way. Here is a case where we need to make someone famous.

Normally, we would not advocate this, but this could be an exception. Trijicon makes some of the best optics offered today, and we all want to get our hands on them, but we are not out steal them. However, that is exactly what happened in the New Products Showcase. American Defense MFG was displaying one of its guns when a show participant apparently walked up and snatched the Trijicon MRO right off the gun.

With the SHOT Show being in Las Vegas, Nevada in the Sands Exposition Center, you know cameras are watching every inch, so this individual is not only a thief, but. well y'all have fun filling in the blank and help American Defense MFG get the word out.

This is from American Defense MFG's Facebook page:

Do you know this person? On 17JAN2017 He stole a Trijicon, Inc. MRO and American Defense MFG mount off of our UIC9, in the new product display. Please help bring this person to justice!!!! If you know the identity of this person, please call Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Headquarters reference Case# 170118-2493 at (702)828-3683.

We would like to thank event security and the local authorities for their swift response. Share wide and far!

woodshed87

You Can't tell Me that they Can't Zoom And Clear up That Tag on his Shirt And Pin Point that Dude
Bust his *[;)]

mlincoln

quote:Originally posted by woodshed87
You Can't tell Me that they Can't Zoom And Clear up That Tag on his Shirt And Pin Point that Dude
Bust his *[;)]


Professional thieves often have fake credentials / name tags / whatever made up ahead of time exactly for that reason. These trade shows are often targeted because they're full of people picking up, trying out, looking over items. Manufacturers don't want to tie things down because people don't like it.

How much nicer the world would be if we were all honest.

mark christian

Just looking at his shirt makes me believe that he's in the show as a manufacture/exhibitor. He doesn't appear to be a dealer or a retailer, those folks generally have a red band on the bottom of their badge (note my badge):


While the sales reps back was turned, I tried to slip that M2 BMG into my shoulder bag, but the damned thing just wouldn't fit!

mnrivrat48

I Hate theifs !! I hope they nail him and make him share a cell with Hillary.

shilowar

Shameful POS. The reaction will be to lock up everything and only allow folks to handle them one at a time. [V]

eastbank

the hardest to catch is the pass off crook, one picks it up and in a flash, may be in a few feet passes it off to another crook. when the original crook is stopped, he will raise a loud stink and ask to be frisk and when the search turns up nothing he goes on his way. mr myopic.

Ditch-Runner

brave soul to do that in a big event maybe a preplanned use the crowd as cover or maybe a crime of opportunity just a spur of the moment I can get it thought .
regardless I hope they catch him

there use to be a big outdoor event close by me "the * dog nationals in Kenton Oh. " drew people from across the country
* dog trials and a huge out door sale ( at one time mostly hunting and guns but turned into socks and Chinese junk over the years )
when I started going 40 + years ago thousands of people packed in from around the country and countless tables full of firearms maybe a hundred plus just on one set of tables with just one fellow sometimes more watching , none of the firearms or goods were tied down
I would watch in amazement, as was common the crowd was so heavy a gun would be picked up and maybe handed around sometimes several people deep into the group maybe 10 or 15 guns from the same table being passed around ( honor system was the rule it seemed )
I know a lot of firearm's were stolen as I heard stories from about every seller at that time very few were actually FFL holders but was obvious why so many thefts . the sellers finely started putting cables thru the triggers and some went as far as roping off a area around them and only allowing one or two at a time to get close the guns ,
I can not image or even try and guess the number of items stolen from that place over time as big and as many people and so many guns I would bet taken from this table and sold the next row over as the guns were traded and bought and sold so many times in the same day

CaptFun

In the booths most everything is tied down and I suspect that rifle in this instance was as well, but the optics had mount that did not require tools.

The badges were pretty different this year. Taller and wider. Exhibitors like us had an orangy red stripe at the top. Missed seeing you this year Mark


There is a story at SHOT that is almost legendary. Years ago a number of guns were stolen, they think by some of the night security guards. Well, what these rocket scientists didn't know is that none of the firearms at the show have firing pins in them. One of the guns wound up with some gang bangers who tried to rob a store. Still not knowing that it had no firing the crook attempted to shoot the store clerk. Luckily the clerks gun had a firing pin! Game over!

They caught another one when whoever ended up with it tried to buy another firing pin and when asked he stupidly gave it up. Busted!