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Which raises the very serious question of how do so many get stolen. Mine are in a safe, if you can open the safe or steal the whole damn safe then you fucking earned it. If I'm home when you try. . .well same thing but you also run the risk I might shoot you.
In addition not every house even has guns, these aren't televisions or X-Boxes where you can simply make an educated guess without knowing someone or hell casually walk up to the house, knock on the door and when they don't answer peer in the windows knock on a few of them and when someone asks what are you doing just make up a story about your friend and he's supposed to be here. Worst case scenario they call the cops on you and you leave and you haven't commited a crime yet even if you do stick around.
It also leads to the imponderable, how could the genie ever go back in the bottle. There is about a gun for every man, woman and child in America, so there is more than enough to have one per household.
You cannot survey it because gun owners do not like anyone gov't or not knowing that, 1)They are armed and 2)They have something worth stealing.
People have guns for self defense and need them accessible. People forget and leave the stove on, most people don't think to lock up their guns unless they have a lot of them and it starts looking like a pile of cash to remind them. People leave spare change and the odd twenty lying around. They tend to lock up straps of 100's. Same thing with a dime bag, vs a kilo.
There are far more than 500,000 burglaries a year. Guns are just the most easily fenced item there is. Everyone knows someone that probably either wants it, or knows someone that does.
Guns hold their value. Buddy of mine bought a new 9mm like 6 months ago. traded it back to the dealer and they only knocked off like $40 on the return. Stolen guns are worth 50 cents on the dollar, but most other burglary items like electronics, games, and jewelry (beyond melt down of course) are 10 cents on the dollar.
I don't know about burglary casing specifics but some things are kind of obvious. If the pickup in the drive has sticker of elk-horns he has a rifle. It might be in a safe, but the handgun is probably in the glovebox or under the seat. I suspect a lot of gun thefts are from cars and pick-me-up trucks.
In the house it is in the nightstand, under the mattress, or on the top shelf of the closet. Maybe top of the refrigerator.
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