U.S. Air Force Leads Raid on Las Vegas Gun Shop
August 21st, 2011[???]
Update: Property Stolen from Nellis Air Force Base
Via: KMVT:
Officers raided the Citadel Gun & Safe Friday. Local media outlets report investigators were searching for property stolen from Nellis Air Force Base.
Police are tight-lipped about what led to the investigation.
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Via: 8newsnow:
The U.S. Air Force led a rare raid against a Las Vegas gun shop Friday afternoon. Investigators removed pieces of evidence and took several people into custody.
The initial raid lasted less than an hour.
“These guys were in full get-up, automatic weapons,” said Bahama Mamas manager Joe Gold.
Armored SWAT tanks, officers carrying machine guns, K-9s, the FBI, ATF, and the U.S. Air Force made a grand entrance at the business park on Dean Martin Drive near Flamingo Road.
Heavy on action and light on information, investigators remained tight-lipped about the warrants served at the Citadel Gun and Safe store and an unoccupied building behind it.
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A public information officer with the U.S. Air Force tells CNN authorities retrieved stolen property from an Air Force base at the store. No explosives or weapons were among the stolen items.
Oh, how I’d love to read into it, that someone stole alien tech. 🙂 Unfortunately, we can all be pretty sure it was someone snagged cases of MREs, uniforms and assorted gear (packs, NBC gear, etc). Pretty much anything they could move quickly and undetected. They can list a crate of MREs on eBay without drawing attention to themselves. If they list a crate of M16s (well, on Gun Broker) it’ll have the feds at their doorstep within hours of posting it.
They probably went in full force for a few reasons. First, it’s a gun store. At every gun store I’ve ever been to, the staff are carrying their weapon of choice, with the highest power people-stopper bullets they can get their hands on.
They *had* to breach the perimeter quickly. If the folks in the store knew what was happening, they’d drop the roll gates, barricade the doors, and then they’d have a very dangerous standoff situation. A lot of the stores I’ve been in have everything up to and including .50 BMG’s. They’d probably have MREs to last them for months, and enough ammo to keep up a shooting game for a long time. Even if they breached the wall with an armored assault vehicle, regular body armor isn’t going to stand up against what they have laying around the store. Hell, they even have body armor listed on their site. That’d be a good second line of defense, since they had enough safes to make some very healthy cover from.
If it hadn’t been a quick perimeter breech, it could have gotten *very* messy.
It could have gotten *very* messy??? haha
You mean when those fat gun store wannabees went to Costco and realized they were sold out of frozen pizzas and ding dongs?
Your comment was hilarious.
It’s like you channeled the inner idiot of one of those slobs. Internet Tough Guy by Proxy Syndrome?
Drop the gates, Bubba! Lock and load, boys! Yee haa.
Oh my god, my sides hurt from laughing so hard.