Antique Guns Stolen from Armory

The Free Press has the story.

A collection of antique guns, which survived for decades in a Mapleton man’s home and many more years in the Blue Earth County Library, has been stolen from a Mankato armory.

A full-time guardsman called police Thursday morning after he reported to work at the National Guard Armory in Mankato and found a broken window. Dozens of antique firearms that were on display in the lobby of the building were missing.

Roughly two dozen rifles and about 70 handguns are missing, said Maj. Darrin Janisch, who works at the armory. Some of the rifles were left behind by the burglar or burglars. Most of the handguns were gone.

I would imagine the black market for these guns is not the usual one. To off this merchandise we'd have to seek out those folks among the legitimate gun owners that I call "the hidden criminals." This are the bad-laws-be-damned crowd.

What's your opinion? Don't you think many a lawful gun owner would enjoy owning some of this stuff.

“There was everything there from cap and ball single-shot handguns to modern guns up into the 1940s and 50s.

One of the weapons was a Japanese machine gun.

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