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Posted: 6:49 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013
By Mike Morris
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Gwinnett County police are trying to determine who stole dozens of weapons during a weekend smash-and-grab burglary at a gun store near Dacula.
The break-in happened about 2 a.m. Saturday at Big Gun Armory on Braselton Highway.
Gwinnett police Cpl. Troy Tobler told the AJC in an e-mail Tuesday that officers arriving within 5 minutes of the alarm found the front doors smashed and tens of thousands of dollars worth of handguns and rifles missing.
Tobler said that the preliminary estimate was that around 50 guns worth between $50,000 and $75,000 were taken in the burglary.
“We weren’t fully stocked, but we had a lot of guns in here,” Tyler Keifer, the store owner’s son-in-law, told Channel 2 Action News.
“They got in and got out quick,” Keifer said. “They just walked in and grabbed them.”
“There are currently no suspects, and any motive would be speculation at this point as far as what the suspects intend to do with [the guns],” Tobler said.
“Many times, when firearms are stolen en masse, they are sold and shipped outside the immediate area, but again, that would be speculative,” he said.
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