The federal agency supposed to monitor and regulate American citizens’ possession and transportation of firearms, the bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) can’t even keep track of its own guns, according to a report published by Milwaukee’s Journal-Sentinel. Based on documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, the report shows agents lost dozens of their own firearms, including handguns and assault rifles.
Are these seriously the people who have the authority of the Department of Justice over you and your firearms?
ATF agents have lost track of dozens of government-issued guns, after stashing them under the front seats in their cars, in glove compartments or simply leaving them on top of their vehicles and driving away, according to internal reports from the past five years obtained by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.Agents left their guns behind in bathroom stalls, at a hospital, outside a movie theater and on a plane, according to the records, obtained Tuesday by the news organization under the federal Freedom of Information Act.
In December 2009, two 6-year-old boys spotted an agent’s loaded ATF Smith & Wesson .357 on a storm sewer grate in Bettendorf, Iowa. The agent lived nearby and later said he couldn’t find his gun for days but didn’t bother reporting it — until it hit the local newspaper.
In Los Angeles in 2011, an agent went out to a bar drinking with other agents and friends, reportedly consuming four alcoholic beverages. The next morning he woke up and realized his ATF-issued Glock was gone. It was not found.
All of the agents’ names are blacked out on the reports, which do not say if the agents were disciplined. It is clear that agency rules were not followed in many of the incidents, which show at least 49 guns were lost or stolen nationwide between 2009 and 2013.
Source: Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel
Photo: Marsmet524 on Flickr
Idiots.
Typical Government operations, personified!
Hey Sarge, don’t get so upset, this nice Mexican man was buying us drinks and things just got out of hand.
The lost guns were probably included in the weapons the ATF gave to the mexican cartels under the fast and furious program.
LOST ..OR SOLD TO OUR ENEMIES?
has Holder paid a visit lately,, if so,, you know where guns went
OBAMA PROBLY GAVE THEM TO THE MUSLISMS THEY DO HAVE A LOT OF GUNS!!! AND A SOLDGER GO FIRED ONR TIME WHEN HE TOLD OF WEAPONS BEING MOVED!!!!
yet more reason we need to do away with these $#%&!@*s and their agency o and the irs fraud bs
Everything about these movements looks suspicious to me. Why is it so important to disarm American citizen’s. Who want us defenseless. They one’s who are trying so hard to ban gun’s has an underline reason and its not because of bystanders being shot or killed by some fanatics. Drunk drivers kill as if not more so than guns. Why not ban booze of all kinds. Anyway guns don’t kill people. People kills people and taking the law biding citizen’s gun is only inviting the crooks to invade their homes robbing and kill them. Is this what you gun haters want.??? or as I suspect it goes deeper than that. You people on this anti gun mission how many of you are
socialist, Alqaeda member,