US Military Guns Keep Vanishing, Some Used in Street Crimes

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 Stolen US Army pistol linked to 4 New York shootings, but military didn’t even know it was missing – media
15 Jun, 2021 11:43
 
 
A US Army pistol stolen from Fort Bragg was reportedly used in four separate New York shootings before police recovered the weapon and the military was even aware it was gone – just one of nearly 2,000 stolen in the 2010s.

AP revealed the worrying news on Tuesday after an investigation into at least 1,900 US military weapons that had been “lost or stolen” in the past decade – with some ending up on the streets.

Though it’s not clear when exactly the 9mm Beretta M9 was stolen, it was used in several shootings in Albany, New York in both 2017 and 2018 before being recovered by law enforcement in June 2018.

According to AP, the army “didn’t even realize someone had stolen the gun” as the official inventory claimed the weapon was under lock and key at Fort Bragg. How the pistol got from Fort Bragg, North Carolina to Albany, New York 600 miles (almost 1,000km) away is currently a mystery and one which AP says the military and Pentagon “are not eager for the public to know the answer.”

https://www.rt.com/usa/526602-stolen-us-army-pistol/

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US Military Guns Keep Vanishing, Some Used in Street Crimes
 
15 Jun 2021
Associated Press | By Kristin M. Hall, James LaPorta, Justin Pritchard and Justin Myers

In the first public accounting of its kind in decades, an Associated Press investigation has found that at least 1,900 U.S. military firearms were lost or stolen during the 2010s, with some resurfacing in violent crimes. And that's certainly an undercount.

Government records covering the Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force show pistols, machine guns, shotguns and automatic assault rifles have vanished from armories, supply warehouses, Navy warships and elsewhere. These weapons of war disappeared because of security failures that, until now, have not been publicly reported, including sleeping troops and a surveillance system that didn't record.

In one case, authorities linked an Army pistol stolen from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to four shootings in New York before it was recovered. Another stolen Army pistol was used in a Boston street robbery.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/06/15/us-military-guns-keep-vanishing-some-used-street-crimes.html

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Its those white conservative terrorists, I tell you.  Then they give them to thugs in the hood who go out and kill each other.  If it weren't for white terrorists, there would be no crime in the hood.

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Stolen Army Assault Rifles Keep Showing Up in California
 
15 Jun 2021
Associated Press | By Jeannie Ohm and Kristin M. Hall

Authorities in California's agricultural heartland weren't looking for a military assault rifle when they went to investigate the domestic assault case, but they found one.

It was in the garage of a Spanish-tiled home in Fresno that police stumbled upon the AK-74. Its distinctively banana-shaped magazine -- loaded with 20 rounds -- was in a nearby storage container.

AK-74s are similar to their more famous cousin, the AK-47. Every two seconds, they shoot three bullets. Because of how rapidly they fire, civilians cannot legally possess them in the United States without a license.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/06/15/stolen-army-assault-rifles-keep-showing-california.html

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A Guide to the US Military Guns Most Often Lost or Stolen

An Associated Press investigation has found that at least 1,900 U.S. military firearms were lost or stolen over the last decade.
By Associated Press
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June 15, 2021, at 2:46 a.m.
U.S. News & World Report

The Associated Press


By JAMES LAPORTA, Associated Press

An Associated Press investigation has found that at least 1,900 U.S. military firearms were lost or stolen during the 2010s. Civilians later used some of the missing weapons in violent crimes.
 
To reach its total, AP culled criminal investigations, court records and property loss forms, and analyzed data from military registries of small arms. AP’s analysis of all that information shows the following guns were among the most commonly missing -- or, in some cases, among the most remarkable.

The U.S. military’s go-to rifle, used by most units, especially within the infantry and special operations. The M4 is related to the AR-15, the civilian rifles that many American mass shooters have used. One defining difference: M4s can switch to fully automatic or fire a three-round burst.
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Evolved from the M16s first introduced during the Vietnam War, the M4 also was born from combat necessity. Engagements in Panama and Somalia in the late ’80s and early ‘90s showed the need for a more compact firearm suited to close-quarters combat. The M4 and its shorter barrel debuted in 1994.

https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-06-15/a-guide-to-the-us-military-guns-most-often-lost-or-stolen

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The U.S. Military Doesn't Even Track How Many Weapons It Loses, And It Has Lost Thousands
A scathing report details how over 2,000 weapons have gone missing from military arsenals in the last decade alone and the data is far from complete.
By Brett Tingley June 15, 2021

    The War Zone
 
A damning investigative report published by The Associated Press today details how over 2,000 weapons have gone missing from military arsenals between 2010 and 2019. While the data set was far from complete, what the outlet did obtain shows a worrying pattern of lost and stolen weapons, some of which ended up in the hands of criminals who used them in the commission of violent crimes, while others were even simply discarded in public parks.

The Associated Press's investigation states that, between 2010 and 2019, these weapons went missing or were deliberately taken from a wide variety of locations, including armories, warehouses, firing ranges, Navy vessels, or even while in transit. Reasons cited in the report included unlocked doors, burglary, security personnel falling asleep, or lapses in surveillance and other security systems. 1,504 weapons were reported missing or stolen from the Army, 211 from the Navy, 204 from the Marines, and 39 were categorized as "Other," which presumably includes the U.S. Coast Guard and Department of Defense security forces like the Pentagon Force Protection Agency.

While the Marines and Navy offered their own figures about weapons lost or stolen throughout the last decade, the Army and Air Force did not willingly provide The Associated Press with exact numbers about how many of their weapons were unaccounted for, so the report instead relied on Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for military criminal case files, as well as internal military small arms registries. One of those FOIA requests filed with the Army’s Office of the Provost Marshal General revealed 1,303 lost firearms from the Army alone. The AP reported the Air Force was less cooperative:

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41104/the-u-s-military-doesnt-even-track-how-many-weapons-it-loses-and-it-has-lost-thousands