• Australian authorities consider colorful guns after high-profile ATM theft

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The Daily Telegraph: Guns carried by security guards could be colored orange in a bid to stop them being stolen by criminals.

Making the guns brightly colored would make them harder to conceal and less attractive to criminals, Police Commissioner Ken Moroney said.

The idea, one of several measures being considered in the war against illegal firearms, follows the theft of two pistols and thousands of dollars from security guards as they emptied an ATM at Randwick on Feb. 8. 

Moroney said there has been a crackdown on firearm security since 31 Glock pistols were stolen from Obliging Security on August 30, 2003.

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