text: A total of 43 handguns were stolen from Chuck’s Firearms, located on Miami Circle in Buckhead, at about 2:30 a.m. May 29, said Jack Lesher, its previous owner who still works there as a consultant.
  The looting, riots, vandalism and acts of violence occurred as others peacefully protested in Atlanta and other cities nationwide in response to the May 25 death of George Floyd in a Minneapolis and the recent deaths of Arhmad Arbery in Brunswick and Breonna Taylor in Louisville, Kentucky.
  “There’s a feeling they were opportunists,” he said. “They were looking for opportunities to break in and take stuff. That’s the thought pattern.
  And that’s certainly likely. Atlanta has had its own riots, including rioters trying to destroy the CNN building, so someone taking advantage of something like this certainly is possible.
  Nearly three dozen guns have been stolen from a local gun store, the St. Louis County Police Department said Monday.
  According to Sgt. Benjamin Granda, the burglary took place around 1:10 a.m. on Sunday, May 31. Officers from the Affton Precinct responded to an alarm at Southside Pawn and Jewelry in the 8100 block of Gravois Road.
  Officers arrived at the store and found a window on the west side of the building had been shattered and pieces of concrete on the ground beneath the window, Granda said.
  That story fails to mention the riots that were taking place around that time in St. Louis, but it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to put the pieces together.
  Now, it’s entirely possible that these were just garden-variety criminals who saw an opportunity and took it. That’s very possible, even likely.