Federal guns gone: Uncle Sam's missing weapons.

AuthorTuccille, J.D.
PositionCitings - Brief article

GOVERNMENT officials are awfully concerned about how mere private citizens manage their firearms. Connecticut recently tightened already stringent rules about gun storage, and politicians are full of ideas about trigger locks, documentation, and restrictions on who can touch legal owners' guns, and for how long, without committing a crime. But when it comes to keeping track of its own firearms, the government does pretty poorly.

Responding to an anonymous tip that some of the military-style weapons belonging to the U.S. Park Police (USPP) had gone missing, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for the Department of the Interior recently took a look at how diligently the agency tracks its guns. In a scathing report, among other problems, the OIG found record-keeping so bad that it was impossible to figure out how many guns were missing. Investigators also discovered about 1,400 firearms that had no...

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