If you follow the news, you may have seen the report recently that the BATFE has lost hundreds of millions of cigarettes. That seems like a lot to me. What I rather enjoy is that the news coverages mentions only that they were lost. More likely they were sold off. You can't "lose" dozens of pallets of goods. If you can't find them in your warehouse, they aren't there. It's not like not being able to find your car keys or your favorite pen.
Of course, this isn't the first time the ATF has been accused of losing things. There are many examples of them losing paperwork on NFA items, like machine guns. Just recently during a sting one of their agents lost track of a full auto rifle. By "lost track" they mean "ended up in possession of a criminal and we didn't get it back". Oh, and in an audit a few years back it found the ATF lost 418 laptops, many with confidential information on them, and 76 firearms.
Oh, and then there was Fast and Furious, where they gave a couple thousand guns to known criminals and failed to get more than 1,400 of them back. Sadly, many of the ones they did recover were at crime scenes, after they were used to shoot people, including one used to kill a federal agent. I'm not the only one noticing this string of ineptitude either.
Next time you hear a politician talk about getting illegal guns off the street, suggest we disband the ATF. They seem to be behind a fair number of guns that end up in the hands of those criminals.
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