The Lithgow firearm museum has been broken into and robbed. There is video of the robbery I wonder what the target of the break in was any old gun or the more valuable collectors items.
On the news report I saw it looked like they went for the newer more common stuff that’d be easiest to sell to crooks. I don’t think they were enthusiasts going for rare guns to bolster their collections 
The update on the news said they were handguns that were stolen and they made a small comment that they thought they may be able to re work them to make them useable again.
I do remember a few years ago there was a story that the museum was defacing the artifacts by making them de activated. Stealing de activated guns seems a bad risk reward equation to me.
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They might not be smart enough to realise that they’re deactivated and even then are probably still good for using in a hold up.
Look like this was maybe not well planned and scoped out before hand but they definitly knew what they were after. Have a look at the CCTV they check every case and only smash and grab the one after inspecting them all.
I see they have arrested 3 people in relation to this and recovered some of the guns.
I’m not sure if its the 3 people in the video who were actually arrested though.
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That was quick, they were clearly criminal masterminds. 
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