Its Offically a Criminal Shopping List

A criminal admits those newspapers lists are good for business!

Reformed crooks say the New York newspaper that published a map of names and addresses of gun owners did a great service – to their old cronies in the burglary trade.

The information published online by the Journal-News, a daily paper serving the New York suburbs of Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties, could be highly useful to thieves in two ways, former burglars told FoxNews.com. Crooks looking to avoid getting shot now know which targets are soft and those who need weapons know where they can steal them.

“That was the most asinine article I’ve ever seen,” said Walter T. Shaw, 65, a former burglar and jewel thief who the FBI blames for more than 3,000 break-ins that netted some $70 million in the 1960s and 1970s. “Having a list of who has a gun is like gold – why rob that house when you can hit the one next door, where there are no guns?

“What they did was insanity,” added Shaw, author of “License to Steal,” a book about his criminal career.

Yep not only does it hurt the gun owners, but it hurts the NON gun owners.

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One Response to Its Offically a Criminal Shopping List

  1. Guav says:

    They only posted the details of people with handgun permits, so they can avoid a house on the map, but the neighbor next door might be waiting for them with a shotgun or rifle.

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