{"id":62612,"date":"2016-08-25T16:05:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T20:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=62612"},"modified":"2016-08-25T16:05:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T04:18:13","slug":"pentagon-admits-losing-700000-small-arms-iraq-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/pentagon-admits-losing-700000-small-arms-iraq-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon Admits to Losing over 700,000 Small Arms in Iraq, Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Photo: AFP<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n

Sometimes I lose track of my keys. It\u2019s the worst. But I know that ignoring the problem puts me and my family at risk (not to mention keeps us from getting to the grocery store), so I keep looking until I find them.<\/p>\n

The Pentagon is a massive organization filled with intelligence agents, officers, soldiers, analysts, tired bureaucrats, and incompetent interns (I assume\u2014who doesn\u2019t have incompetent interns these days?). These folks sometimes make mistakes and, like me, lose track of stuff.<\/p>\n

But an April report from the New York Times<\/a> suggests that the Pentagon\u2019s record-keeping problems go way beyond a few misplaced pieces of equipment.<\/p>\n

The Times describes how a lobbying group in London called Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) gained access to Department of Defense records to determine exactly how many small arms the United States had shipped to Iraqi and Afghan forces.<\/p>\n

They found a total of 1,452,622 weapons, ranging from AK-47s to pistols to sniper rifles. Here\u2019s a helpful summary from Zero Hedge<\/a>:<\/p>\n