Guns And Parts of Firearms Reportedly Stolen From ATF Facility

By Tom Knighton

When the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives makes a bust, they generally seize a whole lot of guns. Well, they take what guns are there. Sometimes it’s a warehouse, sometimes it’s three guns hiding under a mattress. Sometimes, they even manage to do it without shooting innocent women and children apparently.

True story.

Anyway, when they do, they lock those guns up in storage facilities. That’s supposed to keep guns out of the hands of bad people until they can be properly destroyed.

In theory.

ATF agents across the country have been working to track down thousands of guns and firearms parts that had been seized by law enforcement and were supposed to be destroyed but were stolen first, according to sources familiar with the effort.

The agents are searching for some of their own retired service weapons as well as guns from other federal law enforcement agencies, including the FBI and DEA.

All of the weapons had been sent to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ National Firearms and Ammunition Destruction Branch in Martinsburg, West Virginia, to be shredded, according to court documents and congressional letters.

A longtime guard at the ATF facility has admitted to carting off …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms