We had a gun store/shooting range with rentals broken into up in Powell Ohio back a few years ago. Dudes took sledge hammers and broke through the back wall and walked out with a huge number of guns (the numbers were never really released to the public). The ATF was on that robbery the next morning and by the end of that week (4 days later) the dudes were all caught.

Apparently the ATF had people undercover working the streets and they bought one of the guns two days later. They worked over the people they got the guns from and two days later the police had an old apartment that was abandoned on Columbus’ west side surrounded with the majority of the guns inside.

To Dark’s point, one of the gang did use one of the guns in a really stupid gas station/convenience store robbery up in Dublin, shot and killed the attendant, and then got caught a little later. He too apparently gave up where the guns were too once the gun he used was traced back to the robbery.

Who knows. If we are talking ideals, what if there wasn’t such a demand for guns and there were not gun stores like the shop all this happened at. Then there would have been no robbery, no deaths and no guns on the street from a robbery. That may be a sentimental stance too…