A strange crime has people on Long Island scratching their heads, wondering who would steal a piece of antique machinery.
Police say a World War I German MG-08 machine gun has gone missing. The device was stolen from the Suffolk County Detachment of the Marine Corps in Bay Shore. It's just off Sunrise Highway.
"It was originally out front but we decided to put it on the roof because we thought somebody would steal it," Air Force veteran Anthony Siano said Monday. The vets believe that whoever did this came prepared, considering what the thieves went through in order to bring down more than one hundred pounds of metal from a rooftop.Sign up for NBC San Diego newsletters."Either had an idea of selling it, maybe to a collector," Carmine Raineri of the Suffolk County Detachment Marine Corps League said.
Military armaments historian Dan Templeton, with the Museum of American Armor, says the stolen weapon has gone through a decommission process which makes it inoperable and lacks value without a registered background.
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