The war zone theft went undetected for weeks, when empty pistol boxes were discovered in the compound. In Afghanistan, someone cut the padlock on an Army container and stole 65 Beretta M9s - the same type of gun recovered in New York. Weapon theft or loss spanned the military’s global footprint.
Another stolen Army pistol was used in a Boston street robbery. In one case, authorities linked an Army pistol stolen from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, to four shootings in New York before it was recovered. These weapons of war disappeared because of security failures that, until now, have not been publicly reported, including sleeping troops and a surveillance system that didn’t record. Government records covering the Army, Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force show pistols, machine guns, shotguns and automatic assault rifles have vanished from armories, supply warehouses, Navy warships and elsewhere.
military firearms were lost or stolen during the 2010s, with some resurfacing in violent crimes. In the first public accounting of its kind in decades, an Associated Press investigation has found that at least 1,900 U.S. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
