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It's unlikely that a police officer would steal a machine gun. There's not much of an upside, and the downside risk is terrible.

That said, cops sometimes do stupid things and get caught.

- Jim

Keith B wrote:The Accord EX alarm was a basic system that looked for doors/trunk/hood being opened and then triggered. There was not a shock or glass break sensor from the factory.

That's correct.

I don't know how many car burglars break glass. That makes noise. They typically pop the trunk or jimmy a door (if the owner bothered locking the vehicle).

Even if they break a window they have to open the door to search the vehicle, which triggers the alarm.

Not to get off-topic or anything, but I've never known a shock sensor to do anyone any good. They go off all the time because of wind or something. One of my lazy neighbors has one, and he doesn't even come out to check the vehicle.

- Jim

Most car burglars want stuff they can sell or pawn quickly without being identified. A machine gun stolen for the cops is difficult to dispose of and a guaranteed ten years minimum in the slammer if anyone is caught with it.

It also is not all that useful as a crime weapon. It sounds like good gangster cred, but the magazine is empty before anyone knows what happened.

- Jim

I'm not up on what's installed in cars these days. My car has a factory-installed alarm, but maybe that's because it's a higher-end model (Accord EX).

It's ironic that a cop car can be burglarized this way.

- Jim

In Pinal County, Arizona, a sheriff's deputy reported the theft of a Colt M-16A1 automatic rifle, Taser X-26 and its loaded cartridge, and a Glock 27 pistol from his agency-owned unmarked car, which was parked outside his house at 4:30 a.m. Wednesday.

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/guns/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Don't bother looking, dude. The rifle probably is in Mexico already.

Doesn't every new car come with a burglar alarm?

- Jim