Very disturbing.
What's more disturbing, it's not the first time it's happened.
The sad thing is, with an incomplete custody log of the guns, they really couldn't say with certainty HOW many guns and parts were stolen and it includes machineguns.
This is no better than when leaving billions in guns and equipment to the taliban in Afghanistan.
According to a recent Department of Justice Inspector General investigation, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms failed to follow proper security protocols for seized firearms and parts at the
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New Inspector General Report Shows How Thousands of Guns and Parts Were Stolen From ATF
ATF failed to properly log and track firearms under Bureau custody, including guns from the fatal Operation Fast and Furious.
"Prior to our audit, the NDB did not adequately track the keys used to unlock shipping cases containing firearms slated for disposal. While the NDB had an inventory and a check-out log for its padlock keys, we found that the key log was not properly updated when keys were removed from the storage area," the investigation found.
Those firearms, including machine guns,
The crimes caused ATF to issue more than 1200 referrals across all 25 ATF field divisions in 49 of the 50 states, District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. To date, ATF has recovered 4,625 pieces of the stolen firearms and parts, including 4,000 firearms parts, 3,000 of which of were slides, and at least 15 rifles, 80 handguns, including ATF duty weapons, 10 to 15 AR-style lower receivers, and four machine guns.