Homeland Security personnel lost over 200 firearms in 3-year period

By Chris Eger

A Department of Homeland Security gun vault. According to a recent report, 228 firearms went missing over a three-year period including 103 from CBP, 47 from ICE and 28 from TSA. (Photo: DHS)
A report issued last week by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General details that hundreds of guns and thousands of badges have gone missing in recent years.
The 27-page report by the DHS watchdog discloses that between 2014 and 2016, personnel of the nation’s largest law enforcement agency lost sensitive assets including 228 firearms, 1,889 badges, and 25 secure immigration stamps.
With over 250,000 guns in the inventory of components as diverse as Customs and Border Protection, ICE, the Coast Guard and the Secret Service, the report found that in many cases the firearms that are unaccounted for came after officers either disregarded policy or used poor judgment.
In one case, two ICE officers left their guns unattended in backpacks on a Puerto Rico beach only to come back and find them gone. In another, a vacationing ICE agent had his overnight hotel room guest vanish with his belongings — to include his badge and gun. A third incident involved a CBP officer whose gun came up missing

Source: Guns.com