US military guns keep disappearing and some are used in crimes years later

[Granite3]

I have been in a lot of Armories, all the vaults have concrete walls with rebar, at least 10 inches thick. All that I have been in had a Diebold vault door like a bank.
Protocol has the supply room alarmed, and the vault alarmed.

 

[RSB]

In the summer of 1986 I was in boot at Fort Jackson. This guy in our platoon who was from Lebanon set his M-16 against a tree during a break and then walked away. We were doing our end of cycle tests that day so we were spread out over a large training area. When it was finally discovered this numb nut lost his weapon the poop hit the fan. Out of no where the MP's arrived followed by lots of brass, I actually believe the base commander showed up. What I remember most was hearing they locked down the entire base because this dip wad lost his rifle.
They made our entire company police the woods and someone did eventually find resting against a tree.
a short while later we resumed training. I don't know what his consequences were but I suspect he took a bullet somewhere in Lebanon since then. I was surprised to see just how many foreigners were in our company training side by side with us.
If you remember the summer of 86 in South Carolina you'll remember it was the summer of 100 year drought and heatwave. It was a miserable hot summer for anyone, but it was especially hard on this Damn Yankee. I couldn't wait to get home and then we had a record cold winter to follow. That is something I never complain about.

 

[Dodge man]

They found some 40 mike mike someone stole off a train down in atl a long time ago.

 

[Ringleader]

I have been in a lot of Armories, all the vaults have concrete walls with rebar, at least 10 inches thick. All that I have been in had a Diebold vault door like a bank.
Protocol has the supply room alarmed, and the vault alarmed.

And an SOP for three barriers to the weapons; Diebold door, alarm, weapons racks and all racks chained together and to the floor/wall. I wouldn't bother.

 

[karlvv30]

I have been in a lot of Armories, all the vaults have concrete walls with rebar, at least 10 inches thick. All that I have been in had a Diebold vault door like a bank.
Protocol has the supply room alarmed, and the vault alarmed.

Same here. Missing weapons would be an inside job. Them supply guys know how to get stuff.

 

[Cadcom]

We need to pass a law against this.

 

[THREEJAYS]

We need to pass a law against this.

Yeah and make it illegal toooooo

 

[TheGman]

Compared to what we “left” willingly in Afghanistan , meh

 

[NWSharpshooter]

Years ago I was working at a decommissioned naval base. I was being escorted through the barracks trying to find telco rooms and we stumbled upon a pile of M16A1s just leaning up against a wall in a room that nobody had been in for over a decade.

I was told to wait outside while they called the navy and had them send a couple of guys to pick them up. Must have been 20 rifles, and they guys dumped them in the bed of a blue F150 and drove off like they were brush.

Nobody seemed concerned with 20 automatic rifles that had been unsecured and unaccounted for for over a decade.

It I coulda grabbed just one upper I would have been happy b

 

[User170512]

Couple thousand guns over a decade out of the literal millions of military guns sounds pretty limited. That's what 30 or so per year, per million weapons?