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DHS OIG: DHS Controls Over Firearms

DHS Controls Over Firearms, OIG-10-41, January 2010

  • “The department’s management and oversight of component safeguards and controls over firearms were not effective. A key reason that firearm controls were not sufficient was because DHS did not have specific firearms policies and procedures in place. Instead, DHS relied on its components to augment its general property management policies and procedures with specific guidance for safeguarding and controlling firearms. Although some component policies and procedures for safeguarding firearms were sufficient, personnel did not always follow them. Component personnel did not always sufficiently safeguard their firearms and, as a result, lost3 a significant number of firearms between FY 2006 and FY 2008. Most of the losses occurred because law enforcement officers did not sufficiently secure firearms in their possession. The lost firearms created unnecessary risk to the public and law enforcement personnel; in some cases state and local law enforcement officials recovered lost DHS firearms from felons and gang members.”
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