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Military losing guns
I think we can count on any manufacturer who manufacturer who set this kind of record being prosecuted and certainly their FFL revoked.
"Deputies in South Carolina were called in 2017 after a man started wildly shooting an M9 pistol into the air during an argument with his girlfriend. The boyfriend, a convicted felon, then started shooting toward a neighbor's house. The pistol came from a National Guard armory that a thief entered through an unlocked door, hauling off six automatic weapons, a grenade launcher and five M9s.
Meanwhile, authorities in central California are still finding AK-74 assault rifles that were among 26 stolen from Fort Irwin a decade ago. Military police officers stole the guns from the Army base, selling some to the Fresno Bulldogs street gang."
"The Army and Air Force, for example, couldn't readily tell AP how many weapons were lost or stolen from 2010 through 2019."
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Lets audit federal law enforcement too, for firearms records....starting with the ATF
Hmm, this reminds me of a night training session with a army reserve unit 50 plus yrs ago.Rubber boat training, some how one or two M-14s were lost over board into the creek, in an area where the creek was 6 to 8 feet deep, looked funny as hell watching two or three of the NCO's trying to dive into the deeper part of the creek. they did manage to find both weapons and we continued to train the rest of the night. but I think back to that night and laugh about it, although I didn't say anything then ( but I was thinking it )( one of the NCOs involved later retired because he couldn't / wouldn't lose weight, jes, he was overweight )
The US Government in general cannot tell anyone how much money it has or where it is, never mind bits and bobs like guns, cars, whatever. There is no genuine accounting system. Not even the cabinet level agencies have auditable systems, it's just a huge hodge-podge of systems and ledgers which cannot be reconciled with each other (or even internally). I'll bet an audit of the NFA datebase would be ugly. Or an audit of an any agency's weapons inventory.
This does not mean individual snuffies don't take it in the neck when something gets lost or turns up in the wrong hands, but it's a wonder it doesn't happen more often.