200+ Firearms Stolen from Homeland Security Officials
Summary: During a three year period, 243 firearms were stolen from homeland security officers.
Customs and Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement lost 243 firearms between fiscal year 2006 and fiscal year 2008. 74 percent of the firearms, or 179 guns, were lost “because officers did not properly secure them”!
“The inspector general cited several examples of “inappropriate practices.” A customs officer, for instance, left a firearm in an idling vehicle in the parking lot of a convenience store. The vehicle was stolen while the officer was inside. “A local law enforcement officer later recovered the firearm from a suspected gang member and drug smuggler,” the report said.”
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/02/18/government.guns/
