Another gun store break-in

[theGinsue]

How can any stores have failed to install bollards and other structure upgrades by now?

Not just gun stores, but anyplace that sells vaping products for example.

Bollards are expensive, but in my humble opinion, not as expensive as any loss, which would likely be covered by insurance, the cost on restoring the store in manpower and material, etc.

[APEXgunparts]

Some property owners will not let you install bollards.
In that case you need the heavy concrete barriers, but sometimes they are not practical.

Best thing to do is lock up the thieves that commit the crimes, but in this state it isn't what gets done.

Richard

[FoxtArt]

How can any stores have failed to install bollards and other structure upgrades by now?

Not just gun stores, but anyplace that sells vaping products for example.

Imho it is probably because like every career, a great number of them are barely scraping by. Guns have horrible margins, its all the other stuff that they can turn a dollar or two, but gun stores are not usually known to be a lucrative business. I wouldn't be surprised if 25-50% of LGS do not have the flexibility to spring for a $5,000 capital investment no matter how much sense it makes, they are paycheck to paycheck at best and like many small businesses, many are a sinking ship, money spent is just increasing the sink.

So the issue then becomes, there'll always be a store that is sufficiently weak to target. Even if all stores expent $50,000 in capital investments hardening the door, and all of them had all of this stuff, the theives will just use a new method, because we're not looking at Dave Chappelle's "Hey maaaannnn" doing these robberies, it's organized cartel. Blow up the front of the building? Steal a concrete truck? Not out of the question.

I don't disagree that if I had a store, I'd want to harden the front, but this is a rather unique problem that LGS's are facing starting since about ~2015 or so and only growing. Outside of a claymore, I don't know what really fixes this either.