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cjwils · February 12, 2014, 07:22 PM

Does anyone have experience with this? House breakers clearly like modern guns, especially modern handguns and assault-style rifles. They like drugs, TVs, digital cameras, etc. But do thieves care about antique firearms? I am thinking about this because my house was recently burgled. They took a TV, a blue ray player, a digital camera, etc. They spend time trying to break into my gun safe. They failed at that, thankfully. But they bypassed several thousand dollars worth of original art on the walls. That makes me wonder; if my collection of antique pistols (140 years old or more) had been hanging on the wall instead of inside a safe, would the thieves have ignored the antiques? We can only speculate, but what has happened in other cases with antique firearms on display?

February 12, 2014, 07:22 PM	#1
cjwils Senior Member Join Date: November 28, 2010 Location: Washington state Posts: 401	Would thieves bypass antique guns on display? Does anyone have experience with this? House breakers clearly like modern guns, especially modern handguns and assault-style rifles. They like drugs, TVs, digital cameras, etc. But do thieves care about antique firearms? I am thinking about this because my house was recently burgled. They took a TV, a blue ray player, a digital camera, etc. They spend time trying to break into my gun safe. They failed at that, thankfully. But they bypassed several thousand dollars worth of original art on the walls. That makes me wonder; if my collection of antique pistols (140 years old or more) had been hanging on the wall instead of inside a safe, would the thieves have ignored the antiques? We can only speculate, but what has happened in other cases with antique firearms on display?