>>959846Yer not aware of it because no one ever knew the pieces existed to report them stolen.
Things aren't being stolen from museums and such. They are stolen from vast expanses of public land, where the chances of getting caught are near nil, by people with a little bit of knowledge and no respect for the sciences that gave the pieces value in the first place.
There are things we will never know about ourselves and our planet because of our shortsighted pillaging.
I blame the the collectors much more than the actual thieves. If there were no demand, then there would be no profit on the supply side.
People who have too much are paying people who don't have enough for a piece of history that the vast majority will never know existed.
Hobbyists have nothing to worry about from anyone as long as they know the laws that apply to them, and follow them at all times, while encouraging those who learn from them to do the same.
I think I made a run on sentence somewhere. There really is no argument here. It just comes down to each individual's intent, like most everything else.
