Free Ammo at RK

[Cliff R]

Help yourself, no one is watching!

Good friend of mine shows up to work (he manages the "gun barn") at a local RK store.  He notices that several displays he set-up and filled the day before are emptied.  He asks fellow employees if they sold all that ammo and none of them know anything about it.  He takes a few minutes to check video footage.  Turns out a guy comes into the store, grabs a big push cart that you'd typically load up with feed bags or heavy items.  He goes past a display of those big black totes with the yellow lids.  Grabs one, throws it on the cart, swings by the ammo displays and unloads them into the tote.  He heads right out the front of the store and gone.

Turns out he hit two other stores the same day in the same fashion and no one noticed anything until they checked stock and video footage.

Haven't heard if they found him yet or not.  Seems pretty bold and for sure they need to make some changes to their security.  This is not the first incident and earlier this year an employee at another store was killed when he confronted a shoplifter stealing ammuniton.

You'd think some major changes would be in order.  Locking down the ammo like they do the guns maybe?  Right now they require all ammo purchases happen at the Gun Barn, but I've bought ammo multiple times there off of displays in the front or other parts of the store and paid for them at the front registers.

Anyhow, doesn't look like video surveillance and requiring ammo purchases happen in the Gun Barn is helping out much.  I suspect it will be the few who make it bad for the many and we'll have to buy our ammo from an employee behind a locked gate at some point......

[Sisco]

It is coming, no doubt. Helped along by those thugs in big cities that descend in groups of 50-100 and grab stuff and go. Let’s see what happens if they try that at a typical gun store. It would end badly for a select few, I think.

[jim3326]

Easy solution is to require lids be removed from all containers.

[392heminut]

On 10/5/2023 at 12:56 PM, jim3326 said:

Easy solution is to require lids be removed from all containers.

I don't think that would have made much difference since he went right out the front door without going through checkout!

[jim3326]

8 hours ago, 392heminut said:

I don't think that would have made much difference since he went right out the front door without going through checkout!

Yea, I see I spaced that part of the story.🤦‍♂️

[Cunuckgaucho]

This was about 7-8 years ago. Showed up on a site( high end downtown Vancouver condo) units in the finishing stages

So the day before 2 guys and a 5 ton truck( them in company shirts, truck with decals) showed up and removed a bunch of Miele appliances( dishwashers,dryers and washing machines)

Turns out they had no connection to any supplier just told everyone there was a warranty issue and the units were being replaced. Took about two hours to fill the truck and then simply disappeared.

[98Z5V]

^^^   This is why every commercial company needs Snipers on the payroll.  Commercial ship freight caught onto it, but only if their routes took them around the Horn of Africa. 

I'm just sayin'...  

[Cliff R]

RK has had their fair share of troubles with folks walking (or running) right out the front door with merchandise.  Right after they opened I was getting out of my truck in the parking lot and a guy comes running past me with a Milwaukee tool kit, one of those big boxes with half a dozen tools in it.  Not far behind him were a couple of store employees.  He threw the big box into the bed of his F-150 and sped off.  I'm sure there have been a lot more similar incidents as store security seems to be pretty lacking there.  I've been at the front registers many times when no one was even around the service desk and at most one or two at ringing folks up.......