BATON ROUGE — A man who served time for theft and selling drugs says the “art” of stealing guns from unsuspecting firearms owners offered “quick money” and was “like taking candy from a baby.”
After a yearlong probe examining the problem of stolen weapons, the WBRZ Investigative Unit found that 1,642 firearms had been stolen across nine area municipalities in 2024 and 2025.
WBRZ’s Stephen Stock talked to one man who dealt in stolen guns in the past who explains what thieves look for when they look to steal a gun…