State police were called to a home on Bush Hill Road Thursday evening when the homeowner realized several of his guns were stolen. They say someone forced their way into the home through a basement window while the homeowner was at work.

Officials say two AR-15 rifles, an AK-47 rifle, an MP5 rifle, two 9 mm pistols, and about 2,000 rounds of ammunition were stolen.

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Sounds like the burglars knew what they were looking for, sucks for the homeowner.

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Be interesting to know if we're talking C3 or semi clones?

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Bush rd is out near willimantic and windham. Feel real bad for the guy for sure. That's a lot of money in merchandise right there.

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Sounds like the burglars knew what they were looking for, sucks for the homeowner.

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Broke into the safe?  That's a serious burglar

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Let it be a lesson to all! Video/DVR security is cheap nowadays. You can get a system for less than $200 and really nice stuff if you want to invest as much as 1 good gun. I have a motion system that alerts my cell if motion is tripped in my gun room and live cameras and 2 way audio I can patch into. Easy stuff, look into it!

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Can you give an example?

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Let it be a lesson to all! Video/DVR security is cheap nowadays. You can get a system for less than $200 and really nice stuff if you want to invest as much as 1 good gun. I have a motion system that alerts my cell if motion is tripped in my gun room and live cameras and 2 way audio I can patch into. Easy stuff, look into it!

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Are you using Arlo too?

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Let it be a lesson to all! Video/DVR security is cheap nowadays. You can get a system for less than $200 and really nice stuff if you want to invest as much as 1 good gun. I have a motion system that alerts my cell if motion is tripped in my gun room and live cameras and 2 way audio I can patch into. Easy stuff, look into it!

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while we are on the topic anyone here have system they use and like?

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Can you give an example?

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the more important thing at that point would be to hide the DVR system inside the house so they couldn't steal it, if they take the hard drive then the video system would be worthless.  do some upload to a cloud of some type or they all save to a hard drive, also what happens when the power goes out?  battery back up?

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CT police are trying to have people sign up in their towns who have cameras setup so if a incident happened in the area cops can come by and ask for your video. To me what's to stop anyone from hacking these cameras and watching you parade around in your birthday suit On a serious note though, if you buy a camera security system don't skimp out on the mega pixels !!!! Hate when you can't even tell what you are looking at because you bought a 3MP camera

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Anyone with an iPad or extra iPhone laying around should look at the app, "Presence". It turns most any phone/camera/computer into a motion sensing camera with recording capabilities. If motion is sensed, you can set it to alert other devices like your primary phone.

You can also watch the feed from other devices remotely, and do stuff like turn on the light, or speak through the phone that is acting as a camera. I have an old phone in my safe. If someone opens my safe it alerts me (because the motion is sensed) and starts recording immediately. I can click on the alert or open the app and watch whats going on in real time.



I also use it for random other stuff, like keeping an eye on my dog when Im not home. Or, I set one up facing my wood stove. My wood stove has a large glass face, so I can see what its doing without having to go down there and check on it. Its nice at night when Im laying in bed and just stuffed it full. No running up and down the stairs four times waiting to turn it down when it gets to the proper burn. Instead, look at it on the phone and wait, then go down once when its ready.

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Anyone with an iPad or extra iPhone laying around should look at the app, "Presence". It turns most any phone/camera/computer into a motion sensing camera with recording capabilities.

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Anyone with an iPad or extra iPhone laying around should look at the app, "Presence". It turns most any phone/camera/computer into a motion sensing camera with recording capabilities. If motion is sensed, you can set it to alert other devices like your primary phone.

You can also watch the feed from other devices remotely, and do stuff like turn on the light, or speak through the phone that is acting as a camera. I have an old phone in my safe. If someone opens my safe it alerts me (because the motion is sensed) and starts recording immediately. I can click on the alert or open the app and watch whats going on in real time.



I also use it for random other stuff, like keeping an eye on my dog when Im not home. Or, I set one up facing my wood stove. My wood stove has a large glass face, so I can see what its doing without having to go down there and check on it. Its nice at night when Im laying in bed and just stuffed it full. No running up and down the stairs four times waiting to turn it down when it gets to the proper burn. Instead, look at it on the phone and wait, then go down once when its ready.

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CT police are trying to have people sign up in their towns who have cameras setup so if a incident happened in the area cops can come by and ask for your video. To me what's to stop anyone from hacking these cameras and watching you parade around in your birthday suit On a serious note though, if you buy a camera security system don't skimp out on the mega pixels !!!! Hate when you can't even tell what you are looking at because you bought a 3MP camera

To the editor,

I am writing to express my frustration with an article written about a recent event which affected myself and my husband.

On Thursday March 30th my husband and myself were victims of a burglary. The thief/thieves entered our home through a basement window and accessed the part of our home where our firearms were stored safely in accordance with state law. The article in question was printed in the The Chronicle and Norwich Bulletin, as well as reported on various radio and television news networks. After this traumatic experience I am experiencing great trouble sleeping at night, I am troubled even further by the fact that a blueprint of the best way to break into our home was published by your organization for the whole world to see. The only information withheld by your organization in regards to protecting our identity, safety, and direct location was the exact house number of our residence. However, in today’s world anyone with access to the internet can find that in a matter of seconds. I feel that by releasing this information the state police and your media outlet have further endangered not only myself and my husband’s property but also our personal safety and dignity.

Also the mention of Adam Lanza, a criminal with serious mental health issues and a deranged moral compass in the same article as my husband was absurd. I feel as if there is a propensity among media outlets to constantly remind us any time an “assault weapon” is mentioned in the news of Adam Lanza and the heinous crime he committed with a stolen AR15 of which he was not legally permitted to own. I do not see how this constant mention of Adam Lanza need consistently be used to reinforce public fear of law abiding citizens who continue to own these firearms and use them legally every day. Any stolen firearm is just as dangerous as an AR15, the common deer hunting rifle is more powerful ballistically than an AR15 or AK47 and will kill just as easily. So why mention it? It is as if these media outlets are always trying to compare my husband, myself, and the tens of thousands of other legal “assault weapon” owners who have never committed any crime in this state to the murderer Adam Lanza.

Lastly, we were given no notification that the article mentioning my husband’s name was to be published. Our input or permission to publicly release our personal information was not asked for in any manner by the media. I find this to be a grievous invasion of our personal privacy by the media at a time where I already feel personally invaded by the fact that a criminal has destroyed any sense of security I previously had harbored in my own home. It would have been nice after such an incident to have been informed that our names and details about the incident would be published in such detail, and it would have been nice to be able to voice our experience instead of being mentioned in such a manner that nearly equates us to the level of moral standing as the person or persons who have actually committed the crime.

I am a woman who takes responsibility for my own personal safety and security by choosing to have the means to defend myself and my new family, if that means owning the most deadly “assault weapons” on the planet then I will do it for my family. There are more women like me and our numbers increase every day. We are not criminals, we are responsible mothers, wives, and daughters.

Thank you for your consideration.

-Becky Avens