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No one is accountable there, but Ryan Horsley doesn't get $13.8 million to fix his "problem" when he makes legitimate sales to buyers without a known criminal record. I wonder if Ryan used the defense that the number of discrepancies were "vanishingly small", or that regulatory mandates had exceeded the ability of his systems to be perfectly compliant.
Honestly, cameras are the accountability? No disposition log? No transfer slips? No forms in duplicate? NICS check? No spot checks by the Bundesgendarmarie? Was every gun secured with a gun lock? You mean to tell me that they couldn't be bothered to buy a bunch of quarter-ton fireproof safes from Cabelas before demanding millions?
Our fe'ral government just blew a stack of cash convicting a non-criminal of transferring a "machinegun" to someone else -- without an actual sale happening or any interstate commerce -- but when incompetence resupplies criminals with arms (the ultimate sin in the eyes of the "endgunviolence" crowd), it's: ho-hum lax security, no investigation needed.
Don't let them spend a dime of that money without investigating exactly what went wrong, who knew about it, and why it wasn't fixed. And I don't mean just foisting it on the low-ranking cops on the scene, either. Otherwise I guarantee you that $13.8 million won't solve the problem. Security isn't a product, it's a process.
May 20, 2008, 3:58:00 AM