In this episode, we also address the cunning tactics of organized home burglaries that are sweeping across affluent areas. Featuring a recent news segment from Oakland County, Michigan, the episode uncovers the brazen methods thieves now employ, including disabling alarms and stealing massive safes. Despite increased law enforcement efforts, these criminal gangs remain an unsettling threat. Amplifying awareness around these issues, we aim to equip listeners with the knowledge needed to protect themselves and highlight states like Florida making legislative strides forward.
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Hello, hello, hello. Happy Monday, everyone. Thank you for tuning in today to Shooting the Breeze. My name is Karen Murray, and I am the lead instructor at Franktown Firearms, your one-stop shop for all things gun-related. You guys should come in and take a look around if you haven’t done so yet. We are conveniently located just east of the intersection of Highway 83 and Highway 86 in Franktown. You can reach us by phone at 720-770-7777. You can go to the website, franktownfirearms.com. While there, you can check out all the training classes that are available. You can get information about memberships. This Friday, the first Friday of the month, is going to be a ladies’ night, so check Hopefully, I will see you guys there, or you ladies there, I should say. And I also have a Pistol One class on this Saturday. So if you want to check that out, you can go to franktownfirearms.com. Just click on the calendar and sign up for a class. So I hope everybody had a great Easter, had a nice Easter around here yesterday. Today is not so great. April Fool’s Day. I can’t stand April Fool’s Day. I’ve never been a big fan. It’s one of those days where, you know, you can’t really believe anything you read anyway. But then when you add April Fool’s Day, people just love to post and, you know, forward stories and write stories that are fake. And it’s just, it’s very frustrating to me. I don’t like practical jokes. I’ve never liked to be messed with or fooled around with or whatever. So not only that, but I think we’re living in one big, fat, never-ending April Fool’s Day anyway in this country. So today is nothing special. So last week I talked a little bit about the practice of squatting and how it’s becoming an issue for many homeowners in the United States. There is a growing problem of illegal immigrants basically taking over someone’s house, demanding the keys and they’re getting away with it. Someone you don’t know can literally come into a property you own and you can’t have them removed. It’s unbelievable. Many states, most in fact, they don’t have any legislation in place to prevent this from happening. So homeowners are being dragged out of their own homes, sometimes in handcuffs, while the squatters get to stay. And that is crazy town to me. i just can’t imagine how angry a person would be if they literally got you know ousted from their own property while somebody that’s not documented has no proof that they live there no proof that they ever live there gets to stay and you get kicked out i don’t understand it’s just complete upside down nonsense to me but governor ron desantis of florida is putting a stop to that potential threat and i think it’s great i applaud him for this when hb 621 goes into effect on july 1st floridians will have the ability to call police and have them remove anyone illegally occupying someone else’s property and refuses to leave those caught committing the crime will face harsh penalties He says, quote, you are not going to be able to commandeer somebody’s private property and expect to get away with it. DeSantis said during a press conference per Fox News, we in the state of Florida are ending the squatting scam once and for all. So I don’t expect Democrat governors, our own lovely polis included in that, they’re not going to follow suit anytime soon. I’m guessing squatters have more rights than homeowners do in Colorado. I haven’t really heard any squatter stories from Colorado, but they’ll probably follow suit and just keep the status quo like New York and California and Illinois and Maryland and all the other ones. So in this same vein… Illegals are also targeting and robbing upscale homes. They’re getting very savvy now, and they’re learning almost kind of like a new trade. They’re able to disarm alarm systems. They go in. They take what they want. It doesn’t matter how long it takes. I’m not really sure how this is happening, but this audio that I’m going to play is This is from a newscast in Detroit, and it features Oakland County Sheriff, Oakland County, Michigan, not California, Michael Bouchard. The beginning of the video shows security footage of these men actually tossing a full-size gun safe down a set of stairs outdoors. It’s just unbelievable. So check this out and let me know what you think.
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The security video we’ve seen over the past six months is chilling enough. Unencumbered and well-equipped thieves knock out glass doors, disable the alarm system, and unconcerned, easily and frankly quite loudly, slide a half-ton safe down a flight of stairs before carrying it off in a rental car.
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They come in teams with backpacks. Each backpack has a different tool set. Some are the breaching tools, some are the electronics, the jam alarm systems. Very quick, sophisticated actions.
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Local, state, and federal officers went to work and put enough pressure on these thieves to head elsewhere. Yet they’ve cycled back from L.A., New York, Tennessee, and Ohio.
