Samantha Malone
When an acquaintance he knew showed up shivering on his door step, Bill Swaggerty let the woman move in for a while not knowing the act of kindness would come back to bite him.
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A resident of Indiana and a gun owner, Swaggerty had his back door kicked in last spring and more than a dozen of his firearms and safes were stolen from his home, according to WGN. Swaggerty believes the weapons, some of which were assault-style riffles, were stolen by the woman who he later learned was a stripper.
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“Be careful who you tell,” Swaggerty told WGN. “Don’t be bragging about how many guns you got, be careful who you let into your house and make sure you buy a quality safe. And that’s another thing, don’t let strippers in your house.”
The woman was not only a stripper, but had a husband in jail on a drug charge and was struggling with substance abuse herself, according to WGN. She stayed in his house last winter, but when Swaggerty came home on May 3 he saw his door kicked in and his weapons were gone leaving him to worry they would fall into the wrong hands.
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Swaggerty told WGN he considers himself a responsible gun owner whose good nature was taken advantage of by this woman also blaming weak firearm security.
“Why do I collect them? Why do people collect bottle caps? I like guns,” Swaggerty told WGN. “Make sure you buy a big enough safe and make sure you bolt it to the floor and you make sure you bolt it to your wall.”
