2aguy
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This is the problem.....this guy should have received 30 years for stealing guns, not 10.....he is 27 he will be out before he is 37 and likely he will go back to stealing, or he will end up murdering someone......this is our problem...the revolving door of violent criminals...our problem is not John and Jane Q. citizen who own and carry guns for self defense...
Over 1,000 firearms stolen in the Carolinas during 2017 fiscal year, ATF reports
The ATF stopped one of the groups who were notorious for stealing guns. The group was known by federal agents as the Blow Torch Crew because they used blow torches as the primary means of entering stores they were going to rob.
The crew was mainly after handguns and the ATF says the guns were sold to other criminals.
Special Agent Gerod King from the Charlotte office of ATF said, “No law-abiding person is going to buy a firearm from a convicted felon who stole it from a licensed dealer.”
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ATF said 27-year-old Devonnaire Coffey was the ringleader of the Blow Torch Crew.
Coffey was eventually arrested a convicted.
Five other suspected crew members are under indictment.
The ATF says they successfully broke into 14 gun stores, including a Gander Mountain in Charlotte.
ATF says the crew alone was responsible for the thefts of 340 firearms and of those, only 87 have been recovered.
“One of those firearms reached Washington, D.C., where it was involved in a homicide.”
Coffee was sentenced to 10 years behind bars for his role with the Blow Torch Crew.
Over 1,000 firearms stolen in the Carolinas during 2017 fiscal year, ATF reports
The ATF stopped one of the groups who were notorious for stealing guns. The group was known by federal agents as the Blow Torch Crew because they used blow torches as the primary means of entering stores they were going to rob.
The crew was mainly after handguns and the ATF says the guns were sold to other criminals.
Special Agent Gerod King from the Charlotte office of ATF said, “No law-abiding person is going to buy a firearm from a convicted felon who stole it from a licensed dealer.”
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ATF said 27-year-old Devonnaire Coffey was the ringleader of the Blow Torch Crew.
Coffey was eventually arrested a convicted.
Five other suspected crew members are under indictment.
The ATF says they successfully broke into 14 gun stores, including a Gander Mountain in Charlotte.
ATF says the crew alone was responsible for the thefts of 340 firearms and of those, only 87 have been recovered.
“One of those firearms reached Washington, D.C., where it was involved in a homicide.”
Coffee was sentenced to 10 years behind bars for his role with the Blow Torch Crew.
