How not to shoplift - guns and more guns department

From the Calgary Sun:

Guns seized after shoplifting arrest
Thwarting a shoplifter ultimately led to police seizing a huge cache of firearms, including three loaded guns from a vehicle.

About 9 p.m. Monday, cops took a man into custody for shoplifting at a store in the 1800 block of 16 Ave. N.W.

The suspect directed them to a vehicle in the adjacent parking lot for his personal documentation, where police found a man and a woman with open liquor and a loaded handgun.

A further search of the vehicle unearthed another loaded handgun in the glove compartment, a loaded shotgun in the trunk and several boxes of ammunition.

The owner of the vehicle, 33-year-old David Silliker, has been charged with several weapons offences.

And because Canada is a bit of a nanny state:

Cops also seized a collection of more than 50 firearms from his Deer Run home in the city's southeast.

Staff Sgt. Kathy Grant said the latter cache was taken in the interest of public safety.

"Because he had the loaded handguns and the loaded shotguns in his vehicle, that raises suspicion, so that's why we took the extra step to seize the other ones," she said.

"The firearms that were seized from the residence were registered, so there were no charges laid from the seizure of those."

Fifty Firearms is not a cheap collection even if these were Saturday night specials. The cops should have known about the registered firearms as soon as they busted the guy for shoplifting, they probably went on a fishing expedition when they found out the number -- "the extra step to seize the other ones" my ass...