Feds suspend Tennessee from military surplus program for 60 days...

[tn1911]

Feds suspend Tennessee from military surplus program for 60 days after gun goes missing

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/ne...n-goes-missing

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Tennessee law enforcement agencies receive more military surplus equipment through a federal program than any other state in the country.

But last month the Department of Defense abruptly suspended Tennessee's Law Enforcement Support Office (LESO) from the program after determining it was out of compliance.

The sixty-day suspension is primarily because one county sheriff did not properly report a lost gun. But our investigation found it is not just one county that lost guns.

[Alpha-17]

Remington .45? If you're gonna walk off with something, get something cooler than that at least.

[tn1911]

Remington .45? If you're gonna walk off with something, get something cooler than that at least.

Yeah I was thinking at least an Apache or an Los Angeles Class sub...

[titsonritz]

Well as long as it's the government and LE it's OK, after all, they are the only ones that should be trusted with guns in first place.

[.45fan]

The majority of lost gun news stories are LEO's losing them, leaving them in the bathroom etc.
Is there some how to see the total amount of "lost guns" per year and who lost them?
I understand the news people want to make cops look bad but I'm curious if that many people lose guns or is it the majority are from LEO's?

[mack7.62]

This happens all the time,

More guns are found to be missing from the Maricopa County Sheriff's office

https://www.azfamily.com/news/audit-...9ddd9bdd8.html

On Friday, Sheriff Paul Penzone announced an additional audit done with the help of the ATF found the number of missing guns was actually much higher. He says fifty guns have gone missing or have been stolen from MCSO.

The weapons include:

-29 fully automatic weapons,
-20 short barrel shotguns,
-1 short-barreled rifle.

8 Mississippi departments with missing guns from 2014 missing 12 M-14's.

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news...-missing-guns/

MERIDIAN, Miss. (AP) - Four M-14 military rifles missing from the Meridian Police Department are among dozens of weapons missing from law enforcement agencies across the country.

Guns unaccounted for in Mississippi:

- Jackson Police Department, missing M14.
- Meridian Police Department, four missing M14s.
- Calhoun County Police Department, missing M14.
- Vaiden Police Department, a .45-caliber pistol was sold at a gun exchange.
- Philadelphia Police Department, two missing M-14s.
- Columbus Police Department, three missing M-14s.
Mississippi Department of Public Safety, one missing M14.

Also from 2014 Cali had problems mostly missing M-16's

https://www.kqed.org/news/147328/los...fs-departments

The San Mateo and Napa County sheriff's departments are suspended from a federal program that provides hand-me-down military equipment to law enforcement agencies because the departments are unable to account for some missing assault weapons.

The departments are two of nine law enforcement agencies in the state currently suspended from the Defense Department's 1033 program, according to documents provided to KQED by the California Office of Emergency Services, which facilitates the federal program in this state

[26 Inf]

This happens all the time,

More guns are found to be missing from the Maricopa County Sheriff's office

You mean Sheriff Joe didn't keep adequate safeguards and accountability?

And his Posse was pretty much run the same way?

[tn1911]

The majority of lost gun news stories are LEO's losing them, leaving them in the bathroom etc.
Is there some how to see the total amount of "lost guns" per year and who lost them?
I understand the news people want to make cops look bad but I'm curious if that many people lose guns or is it the majority are from LEO's?

When I still worked patrol in Georgia we had a guy drive off with his issue AR on the trunk of his car and another guy lost all his issue mags for his G22...

[Vic79]

Honestly screw the feds, they probably just want to send them to Mexico for another fast and furious.

[mack7.62]

When I still worked patrol in Georgia we had a guy drive off with his issue AR on the trunk of his car and another guy lost all his issue mags for his G22...

I remember back in the 90's a SWAT guy from one of the smaller departments around Salt Lake City leaving the range put the bag holding his MP-5 and mags on trunk of his patrol. A local found it sitting in the middle of the street and took it to the local station which was closed up for the night so they left it inside the entrance where it was found the next morning. That's what I would have done also....really I would have. Course my favorite story was the FBI Suburban stolen from a motel they were staying at during a training mission, had all sorts of goodies in it.