The US military is overhauling how it tracks its guns and explosives, and Congress is requiring more accountability -- responses to an AP investigation that showed lost or stolen military weapons were reaching America’s streets.
To meet those reporting requirements, the military is modernizing how it accounts for its millions of firearms and mountains of explosives.
In response, the Army, the largest branch with the most firearms, took on a major overhaul of how units report missing, lost or stolen weapons. Paper records are giving way to a digital form, and a central logistics operations center is collecting and verifying serious incident reports that — as with other armed services — didn’t always go all the way up the chain of command.
The Army is now developing an app that would search each service’s own property record databases, according to Army spokesman Lt. Col. Brandon Kelley. After the AP’s initial report published in June, Gen. Milley tasked the service branches with scrubbing their data on firearms losses since 2010 -- the time period AP studied.
There are several reasons for the discrepancy. In conducting their analyses, each service used different standards and systems. Despite the detailed data search by each service, AP found lost or stolen items that were not in their official accounting. The biggest explanation for the difference between AP’s numbers and official numbers is a significant downward revision of Army totals.
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