Only The Government Should Have Guns

[Subdeacon Joe]

ATF agents searching for thousands of guns stolen from their facility before they could be destroyed

 

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ATF agents across the country are working to track down thousands of guns and firearms parts that were seized by law enforcement and supposed to be destroyed but were stolen first. 

The agents are searching for some of their own retired service weapons as well as guns from other federal law-enforcement agencies, including the FBI and DEA.

All of the weapons were sent to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' National Firearms and Ammunition Destruction Branch in Martinsburg, West Virginia, to be shredded, according to court documents and congressional letters. 

A longtime contract employee at the ATF facility admitted carting off thousands of firearms, gun parts and ammunition and selling them over several years.

Guard Christopher Yates was charged in federal court in West Virginia. He pleaded guilty in April to possession of a stolen gun and stealing government property.

Yates is set to be sentenced in August. He faces up to 10 years in prison on each count, but is unlikely to get the maximum under federal sentencing guidelines.

The ATF has recovered more than 4,000 guns and parts that had been reported missing while Yates worked there, according to Yates' plea agreement.

Yates admitted stealing at least 3,000 slides, a key part of a gun allowing it to fire, from Glock semiautomatic handguns. He also admitted stealing dozens of guns, including at least four fully automatic machine guns, which are closely regulated by the ATF.

It's not clear from the plea agreement whether all of those machine guns have been recovered.

Yates told prosecutors that when he was alone at the facility, he stole the weapons and parts and then sold them.

 

 

[Sedalia Dave]

Not sure if I should laugh or cry.

[Phantom Falcon, SASS # 46139]

I love it anytime the atf steps on themselves. I have nothing but disdain for those people.

 

PF