Don’t worry. It is not Bubba’s Tackle and Gun Shop or your local FFL dealer but the Good Old US Government.
According to The Washington Times, the Pentagon has sent 747,000 weapons and auxiliary equipment, mostly small arms, to Afghan forces over the past decade. The paper reported that of the 474,823 serial numbers recorded in the tracking database, 203,888 — approximately 43 percent — had missing or duplicate information. The Times reported that auditors had discovered that 24,520 serial numbers were repeated at least once in the database, and 50, 304 serial numbers had no shipping or receiving dates recorded for them…
…That has sparked fears that at least some of the weapons may be available on the black market, with militants among the potential purchasers. …
via Report says Pentagon has lost track of thousands of firearms given to Afghan forces | Fox News.
ATF expects of Federal Firearm Dealers a 100% accounting of any firearms that happens to grace its inventory under severe monetary and prison penalties even if the mistakes are nothing more than a transposed digit on a serial number. But I guess the same cannot be expected of the Pentagon and I doubt pretty much that anybody will be punished or even given a verbal reprimand for such a screw up.
So much for the accusations of an Iron Pipeline coming from FFL Dealers.
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“So much for the accusations of an Iron Pipeline coming from FFL Dealers.”
Nope. See “Operation Fast & Furious,” “Operation Wide Receiver” (a.k.a. F&F under the Bush administration), and other ATF “stings” across the nation.
The so-called “Iron Pipeline” is more of a trickle, and comes from the fed.gov.
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Where’s mine? You’d think with that many out there, it’d be possible to scare a couple of them up for the good guys.