DE AG Going after Cabela's for Half Million Rounds of Ammo Stolen

[jmiller320]

The Delaware store has sucked for a couple years.

 

[ChrisD]

I guess it’s ok to steal anything else in the store, just not bullets?

 

[Darkemp]

Stolen ammo mostly sold to Philly drug dealers ? Nah

500k rounds randomly shoplifted ?

Hummm . Yeah , retail thefts up generally everywhere . But 500k in less than a year from one store , one box at a time ? That would be non stop shoplifting , opening to closing , every day .

More plausible - someone was dealing cases out the back door .

$273 per day in ammo lost. That’s basically 10 boxes per day at a $30 average when most is more. Ants don’t take the entire sugar cube at once, they take a grain at a time but the entire cube disappears nonetheless. Physical Inventory count is probably once per year.

 

[Darkemp]

As for the loss it’s really dependent on the sales volume and gross margin of the category to determine if excessive, more than the raw dollar amount would have to be factored to determine the countermeasures.

 

[mauser58]

I guess Cabela's should have a weigh in and weigh out when you leave. I guess maybe McDonalds could do the same.

 

[TheOriginalMexicanBob]

Where was Hunter?

 

[adit]

Where was Hunter?

Selling 500,000 rounds to UKR....

 

[MDFF2008]

This might actually backfire on the left in a glorious way.

Leftist thinking is pushing stores to turn a blind eye to shoplifting. Remember the story about the Lulemon store that fired the two clerks for calling 911 after people stole a ton of merchandise?

If a store is sued for allowing theft, it might pave the way for others to sue, like shareholders, and then the stores will be forced to get tough on shoplifting.

 

[rgdguns]

It is probably in one of the shipping containers out back they were just too lazy to look for it and wrote it off.

 

[Doctor_M]

What law did Cabellas violate in being the victim of theft?

 

[Alea Jacta Est]

A couple of you clowns have that much in your basement…

Just. One. Round.
priceless

 

[cantstop]

What law did Cabellas violate in being the victim of theft?

Sorta like pornography. "We know it when we see it" as any self assured, gun grabber knows.

 

[RFBfromDE]

More plausible - someone was dealing cases out the back door .

Even more plausible - The DA is pulling numbers out of their ass.

 

[delaware_export]

Google Delaware firearms public nuisance laws

there it’s fairly new, designed to get passed federal PLCAA

What law did Cabellas violate in being the victim of theft?

 

[RFBfromDE]

The geniuses that gunned down Keke, for whom the law is named;

Teens plead guilty in shooting death of Keshall 'KeKe' Anderson

Facing the prospect of a second trial, two teens pleaded guilty to homicide or manslaughter for the death of another teen in Wilmington in 2016.

www.delawareonline.com

I was not able to find anything that says what their sentence was or if they are still behind bars.

What's important is; Cabala's sold a gun to a non-prohibited person, that gave it to her prohibited boyfriend, who gave it to minors, that gunned down poor Keke.

No word on the status of the straw purchaser or the prohibited person either.

JUSTICE!

 

[lazarus]

That makes more sense... Even at a very conservative 20 cents/round, 500k rounds is $10 million loss in "less than a year," or 10,000 50-round boxes, ~30 boxes a day (assuming not all .22). Even the most f'd up store would notice that and do something, one would hope... those numbers just don't sound right. Who made the estimate? ("top men... we have our top men on the job").

Beyond that, unless they are walking out with shopping carts of the stuff, it weighs a lot. Only so many boxes you are fitting in baggie jeans without walking out holding your pants like you've got dumbbells in your hands.

Even with suspenders on, I doubt you'd get more than 6-8 boxes of ammo in pockets. Maybe large purses and no one bothering to pay attention watching you shove box after box in a purse or backpack.

So that would need to be several people per day, grabbing several boxes. That seems...unlikely. Not that it would have never happened that they lost 20-40 boxes in a day. But EVERY day for a year? Yeah, I am calling BS on the state.

 

[delaware_export]

I guess that’s the real reason for MD’s NOT DISAPPROVED. Approval would make the state just as guilty

The geniuses that gunned down Keke, for whom the law is named;

Teens plead guilty in shooting death of Keshall 'KeKe' Anderson

Facing the prospect of a second trial, two teens pleaded guilty to homicide or manslaughter for the death of another teen in Wilmington in 2016.

www.delawareonline.com

I was not able to find anything that says what their sentence was or if they are still behind bars.

What's important is; Cabala's sold a gun to a non-prohibited person, that gave it to her prohibited boyfriend, who gave it to minors, that gunned down poor Keke.

No word on the status of the straw purchaser or the prohibited person either.

JUSTICE!

 

[Moonlighter]

Where was Hunter?

And where was Ammo Jon?

 

[lazarus]

Stolen ammo mostly sold to Philly drug dealers ? Nah

500k rounds randomly shoplifted ?

Hummm . Yeah , retail thefts up generally everywhere . But 500k in less than a year from one store , one box at a time ? That would be non stop shoplifting , opening to closing , every day .

More plausible - someone was dealing cases out the back door .

Better guess, AG being alarmist. Because Cabela's "isn't cooperating". At a guess, Cabela's hasn't said, the AG hasn't gotten any subpoenas and doesn't actually KNOW anything. They are just pulling scary shit out of their butt. Maybe, possibly, at best, putting a number on how much COULD be missing if ammo follows similar shrinkage patterns to other merchandise. That still seems ridiculously high.

 

[Shoobedoo]

In the end Cabela's may just decide it's not worth doing business in Delaware and close up there. Or they might decide whatever fine they may have to pay is just the price of doing business there. I guess it will depend on which option is more cost effective in the long run.