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

Red faces all round at specna hq.?

 
Just looked on the Specna FB page. Lots of wannabe Colombo's and people acting like it's going to be the end of airsoft. Thank fuck this place is a bit calmer

Speedbird_666 said:
Jesus H Christ.

One has to wonder just how did they shift that many RIF boxes unnoticed? This surely must of been a targeted attack.

I just hope there isn't too much blowback.
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Tbh it was more likely bad luck. Thieving cunts cut the sides of curtain sided trailers to see if there's anything worth knicking

 
Cannonfodder said:
people acting like it's going to be the end of airsoft.
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I can see why people are worried.

With firearms laws under scrutiny after that c**t with a shotgun last month, this is precisely the publicity UK airsoft doesn't need right now to stay under the radar.

Joe public: Why do they need realistic guns to shoot plastic balls at each other? Guns are bad! etc etc.

L3wisD said:
They were only AEGs, Specna don't make a GBB
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It looks bad, it seems bad, but this is every day stuff in 2021 UK.

Dibble doesn't care about property theft. Nobody got sliced up a treat, and there's no boobs involved in this story, so it's going nowhere.

Some pikeys - yes, hello, Thought Police, pikeys -  ripped off a lorry, as they do multiple times a night, every night, with no consequences.

The RIFs will be pawned off for pennies on the pound, passed on to 13 year old drug couriers, slung under a bed, forgotten about, or just pitched in a ditch.

UK stocks will remain as low as they are for a bit longer, but this too shall pass.

It's not the end of the world, or even the end of airsoft.

 
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If I hadn’t been running about the M25/M11/A1M all night recovering people who had run out of fuel and abandoned their cars I would’ve been there ? more surprised the thieves managed to get away considering the queue for the petrol station was blocking traffic getting back to the M25 …

 
Rogerborg said:
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Exactly. 

Jacob Wright said:
If I hadn’t been running about the M25/M11/A1M all night recovering people who had run out of fuel and abandoned their cars I would’ve been there ? more surprised the thieves managed to get away considering the queue for the petrol station was blocking traffic getting back to the M25 …
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There's a couple of notorious caravan sites just to the north so they probably used the back roads

 
I can't help but feel the fact so many were stolen means the chances of someone getting busted for it rises considerably.  Now if it was a handful or a dozen or two dozen, probably easy to fly under the radar but 2000?  That's 2000 opportunities for someone to fuck up.  The smart play is to get them all out of the country and back into Europe.  I can't see crims wanting to sit on 2000 rifs, nor can I see a good way to offload so many.  Wishful thinking perhaps.

 
A bit dumb shipping on a trailer with curtains, you'd need to be considering a solid box for security...

Well, someones kids are going to be well happy this christmas given that the media are advertising it as cancelled this year...

 
I personally struggle to believe that 2000 were taken, that would take ages and you’d need a fair sized vehicle to put them in. Mimms isn’t the darkest quietest truck stop either. But that’s just my opinion ??‍♀️
 

Regardless, it is a shame and I hope there’s no backlash on the community. 

 
Immaterial wether you think people on here are over reacting to this story or not ANY bad press associated with the sport is bad for all of us no matter how large or small it may be .

 
Imagine their faces when they first opened the crates and found the motherload of ar15s! 
then imagine their faces when they realised they were toys!

priceless!

 
Druid799 said:
Immaterial wether you think people on here are over reacting to this story or not ANY bad press associated with the sport is bad for all of us no matter how large or small it may be .
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Oh definitely I’m not disagreeing at all. 
 

In this case no news is most definitely good news. 

 
Druid799 said:
Immaterial wether you think people on here are over reacting to this story or not ANY bad press associated with the sport is bad for all of us no matter how large or small it may be .
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Has there been any press about it, good or bad, large or small?

 
Rogerborg said:
Has there been any press about it, good or bad, large or small?
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3m .22lr rounds were nicked from a lorry earlier this year and that barely got any traction at all.

Mainly because it was in The Sun, but my spidey senses think it would've been a much bigger story if it was around the same time after that journalist was shot and killed in NI by a .22

 
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