Dozens of guns among items stolen from LA train cargo containers

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Dozens of handguns and shotguns were among items stolen by thieves from cargo containers aboard trains near downtown Los Angeles for months, authorities said.

Police arrested three people last summer carrying new .22-caliber handguns, the Los Angeles Times reported. A trace of the weapons revealed they came from a batch of 36 handguns reported missing as they were being shipped by train to Tennessee, police officials said.