The FBI prevents the crime of stealing government property from being compounded by the two criminals Joe Finney and Pete Jones. It was Finney and Jone's intention to sell the stole guns to insurrectionists in a Latin American country. That men they never saw would die because of their sale of those stolen goods meant nothing to them. In fact it never entered their minds for the attitude of criminals towards others is what must of inspired the phrase, man's inhumanity to man.