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ATF Reward in Houston Area
Firearms Thefts

(GunReports.com) – The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has announced a matching $5,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for eight burglaries at Federal Firearms Licensees (FFLs) in the Houston area.

The burglaries in question are listed below:

• Cypress Jewelry and Loan (12-2-11), 11133 Huffmeister, Cypress, TX, 37 firearms stolen, ATF and Harris Co Pct 4.
• Great Texas Gun Company (12-17-11), 6951 State Highway 21 East, Bryan, TX, 80 firearms stolen, ATF and Brazos County SO. (Reward previously offered.)
• Fiesta Pawn (12-24-11), 12726 North Freeway, Houston, Texas 77060, no firearms, Harris County SO, ATF.
• People's Pawn (1-4-12), 11431 North Freeway, Houston, Texas, 10 firearms and electronics, ATF and Houston PD.
• Amex Pawn (1-4-12), 12303 Veteran's Memorial, Houston, Texas, 131 firearms stolen, ATF and HCSO.
• JJ Enterprise Sporting Goods (1-7-12), 505 E. Brazos Ave, West Columbia, Texas (Brazoria County), 16 firearms stolen, ATF and West Columbia PD.
• Value Pawn (1-12-12), 10790 W. FM 1960, Houston, Texas, 77064, no firearms but other items, ATF and Harris County Pct 4.
• Jet Pawn (1-14-12), 6135 FM 2920, Spring, Texas 77379, 3 suspects arrested during attempt, ATF, HCSO, Harris County Pct 4.

The matching reward payment by NSSF will be granted only following payment of the initial ATF reward.

Anyone with information on these burglaries is encouraged to contact: Crime Stoppers of Houston at (713) 222-TIPS (8477) or ATF at (800) ATF GUNS or 800-283-4867

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I think someone should question Eric Holder

Comment by: timdaus | January 31, 2012

Has anybody thought of asking BATFE about this? Like, could this be another plot to undermine our Second Amendment rights by putting the FFLs in a bad light for not exercising proper security?

Comment by: canovack | February 2, 2012

I would not be surprised a bit if BATFE was knocking off gun stores. Not a bit. They're already known to bust gun owners on technicalities or even false charges and confiscate the entire collection without ever returning them. I expect the next thing will be to do agency burglaries of gun-owner's homes, using staff safe-crackers to get into our gun cabinets when we're away - or even holding us at gun-point to do the job. The just won't have their ATF patches on their hats when they do it.

Comment by: david b | February 2, 2012

I'm not usually a conspiracy theory fan, but if the government was behind Gun Runner, and if Burke concocted the scheme to support his gun control agenda; then it isn't hard to imagine another overzealous, anti-gun political appointee actually staging this. (We know Gun Runner was government sanctioned, though Burke's motives we do not - we only know his track record. We also know gun running was previously tried, so the idea was not original.) I'd better go get my foil hat....

On the other hand, this covers 8 robberies or attempts, 5 of which resulted in guns being stolen, all in the "Houston area." I would find it helpful to know how this rate compares to the norm in Houston, and what else was stolen. (For example, in the pawn shop robberies did they just take guns, or a bunch of jewelry, too.)

Comment by: PVB | February 2, 2012