A friend of mine had a top of the line Browning, at least that is the way he described it. He came home one day to find his back door, a sliding glass one, unlocked. He pushed it open just a bit and heard someone making a lot of noise inside.

This was about twenty years ago, so he walked across the alley and asked a neighbor to call the police. They were there in about two minutes, went in and arrested three guys.

His safe was a mess. They had hit it with sledges and tried to cut through it with a saws-all. They had beat the lock dial off. They did not manage to get it.

The cops had the guys in their cars and they asked my friend if he wanted to talk to them. So he asked them how long they had been at it.

Three hours and they had gotten nowhere. By the way, he had the safe bolted to the floor through the inside of the safe. They told him they normally just took the entire safe.

The weird thing that came out later was that they had paid for the information about him having a safe. A petty crook had broken in, seen the safe, and called them about it. Then that crook left. He would have been paid later, after the guns were cashed out.

My friend bought another Browning.