Posted on 05/23/2011 10:50:18 PM PDT by smokingfrog
The King County Sheriff’s office said late Friday it can’t account for 113 firearms.
Sgt. John Urquhart, spokesman for the department, said the inventory discrepancy came to light because authorities were updating their records as part of an accreditation process. The probe began in August of 2009 and is continuing, he said.
”This was the first time the Sheriff’s Office completed an independent physical inventory,” Urquhart said. ”Previously, inventory records were kept by King County’s Fleet Administration, which keeps records of all assets held by County departments, from computers to desks, chairs and firearms.”
The unaccounted for weapons – dating back to 1958 – were 71 shotguns, 37 pistols and five rifles, the sheriff’s office said. Most of the weapons were likely sold to licenses gun dealers in past decades, Urquhart said.
“Others were destroyed when they became inoperable or defective. However state law only required that records be kept for six years, and therefore records of sales or guns destroyed were purged over time. There is also the possibility that weapons, especially shotguns, were not turned in by deputies after they qualified to carry a personally owned patrol rifle, and are therefore still in their possession,” Urquhart said.
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Better check to see if any of them ended up in Mexico.
check the King Co. sheriff’s and deputies closets first.
Move along folks. Nothing to see here.
What a liar.
Wait a minute! They found a note, it reads, “117 weapons destroyed (date)” Mystery solved, minor book keeping glitch, no problem.
My guess is that they have one individual who does property accountability. I’m also guessing it was the same person for the past three decades, and they likely came up to retire...with a new person arriving and doing an inventory...which everyone was shocked because the old guy never did inventories. The new guy can’t find where items disappeared to...and is accepting this “destroyed” memo invented for the 117 items. For all we know...it might be half true.
Forgive my feeble jest. Taking an inventory usually does produce some interesting results. I wonder how many guns get lost from law enforcement folks every year. I say lost because I can’t imagine them coming up with an excess.
If some lowly citizen were to lose these firearms, they would end up in prison for a very long time.
I am in a lazy part of the army, and Lord knows how tedious tool box and nuts bolts inventories are, but we still do it. How can’t they do it with firearms on a weekly basis, a simple to count single tool?
This is unacceptable and willful ignorance.
Closets? How about their credit and debt payment accounts and the spending style of their prostitute wives, since they love to hit on soulless strippers like a bunch of swines on a “domestic violence” arrest streak.
Thank goodness, the IRS is now off-the-hook!
IIRC, they were missing almost that many guns in last year’s audit, but that was in only one year!
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