JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Someone smashed their way into a gun shop in Arlington and walked out with 21 guns.
The burglary happened at the Bullseye Gun & Pawn at Atlantic and University.
According to the store's owner, Jackie Miller, the thieves broke through the store's steel, roll-down door and smashed the glass front door.
They smashed in four display cases and selectively removed 23 guns. Two weapons were recovered at the scene. They did not steal any cash.
The thieves made off with several 9 mm pistols, a .50-caliber handgun, semiautomatic pistol, a pump action shotgun, two .38-caliber revolvers with pink pearl grips, and a number of other weapons.
The Magnum Research .50 Action Express Desert Eagle pistol was the most expensive taken--retailing above $1400. The .50 AE is a large caliber handgun with a six inch barrel. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms labels the prototype of the pistol as a "destructive device," because of a bore larger than a half-inch, putting it in the same category as hand grenades. Subsequent makes have been below the half-inch barrier.
Miller tells First Coast News that this is the fourth time her gun shop has been burglarized in four years. However, the burglaries have never been this severe.
The store has a security system provided by IDS Alarm, including motion sensors. According to the police report, the alarm did not sound. IDS Alarm employees are working to find the problem.
Bullseye's gun shop has no video surveillance system.
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