16,000 guns ‘lost’ from manufacturing plants in last 2.5 years: report

 

 

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A report released Thursday highlighted that more than 16,000 firearms have been reported "lost" from licensed gun manufacturing plants before sale since 2009, an average of 18 guns lost per day. Many of these guns don't have serial numbers affixed yet, making them nearly impossible to trace and thus desirable for criminals.

The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence's report, "Missing Guns: Lost and Dangerous" (PDF), used data gathered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and makes an argument for amendments to federal laws governing gun manufacturers.

Daniel Vice, the center's senior attorney and the author of the report, told Raw Story that the lack of security and hiring standards at the plants contributes to the gun losses.

"Federal law is so weak that there's no law that says they have to do anything to secure their plants," Vice said. "They can write off 'lost' guns as a business expense. They can leave their doors wide open at night if they want to." Read The Rest Here>>>

[TLS]- LOL "lost" the manufactures might have seriously lost a few dozen due to theft and actually misplacing them. 16,000 "lost" means the employees didn't want to fill out a 4473 form and paid cash which the owners accepted and marked down the gun as "lost". We need to repeal federal gun laws as they serve no real purpose. Whens the last time the NRA worked on REPEALING a federal gun law?? Like the 1967 GCA?