Potentially lots of Specna Arms RIFs stolen from truck at South mimms services

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Absolutely bonkers!

That's a lot of replica guns to find their way into criminal hands ?

 
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That's a lot of guns to go walkies, especially here in the UK. I expect the police head-shed will have kittens and I'll be amazed if the press doesn't catch wind of this.

Daily Mail Headline: 'thousands of lethal replicas stolen' etc etc.......

So if you see a bunch of cheap Specnas up for sale on the various forums/groups, you'll know why.

 
Great minds speedbird ?

I've merged them together.

 
i'm guessing specna don't serialise their stuff? i know most manufacturers don't bother but this would be a perfect time to be able to do the ol' "if you see someone selling guns with 45xxx on the serial let us know"

 
Adolf Hamster said:
i'm guessing specna don't serialise their stuff? i know most manufacturers don't bother but this would be a perfect time to be able to do the ol' "if you see someone selling guns with 45xxx on the serial let us know"
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I think the question got asked on their FB page, they say they are looking into it.

 
What makes me angry is that as airsofters we generally do our best to keep our rifs safe & away from reach under lock & key, because of the implications of them getting in to the wrong hands, yet these twats took the decision to move them in a soft sided vehicle, probably left parked overnight FFS.

Thats seriously irresponsible ?

 
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Tackle said:
yet these twats took the decision to move them in a soft sided vehicle, probably left parked overnight FFS
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I'd imagine it was a choice between that, or them not moving at all.

Failbook suggest that there's a notorious "campsite" nearby. Since it happened a couple of days ago and is only being reported now, I fear that means that Dibble didn't get boots in there quickly enough to recover any.  Probably too busy looking for people speculating on what "campsite" really means.

Sadly, this might indeed catch the #ScumMedia's attention.  However, I would note that it's absolutely trivial to get or create a RIF, so this isn't really going to put more into the hands of wrong 'uns.

But my God it's bad news for UK stocks.

 
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doesn't say all 2000 were stolen, a pallet is roughly 1 cubic metre? can fit around 40 AEG's so 9 of them would be around 360....

 
I imagine they got whatever would fit in a a clapped out Transit van with ROI plates.

 
ak2m4 said:
doesn't say all 2000 were stolen, a pallet is roughly 1 cubic metre? can fit around 40 AEG's so 9 of them would be around 360....
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Reading it again, it does say "took replicas from 9 pallets" For all we know, they could've taken 10-12 RIFs ...

Edit: It will be more of a ball ache to retailers/customers as they will have to work out out of the 2000 items (of the SA shipment alone) what's missing before they can release the load.

 
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Might be worth changing the thread title, as others have mentioned the post in no way says 2000 were taken… it’s actually alarmingly loose in general in terms of detail on quantity.

No wonder at all that many of our minds jump to ‘I wonder what media will make of this’ if we’re being equally as… ‘lax’ when parsing the information presented.

 
How will we know, if a new sa is offered for sale,whether its hot or not?(no pun intended)

As is often stated in ads 'Brand new,purchased but didn't like it'

 
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Shamal said:
How will we know, if a new sa is offered for sale,whether its hot or not?(no pun intended)

As is often stated in ads 'Brand new,purchased but didn't like it'
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These will be in car boot sales by Sunday, sold for £50 a pop.

Much rather these than a batch of Glock 19's go missing, which will be much more likely to be used for serious crime rather than flogged to punters.

 
Everyone will have to be wary of sales from people who don't seem to be airsofters.

Its definitely going to be difficult to pick them out.

Of course many won't care where it comes from as long as they get a bargain.

 
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Seems 2000 guns was accurate

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Also, the Facebook meme machine has been fired up:

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