Who Guards the Guards: Falmouth, Mass. PD Misplaces Firearms

Everyone misplaces something from time to time. House or car keys, the TV remote and of course six .40-caliber Smith & Wesson semiautomatics. Oh wait, I’ve never misplaced a firearm and neither have any of my friends or colleagues. But the police in Falmouth, Mass. on Cape Code have done so. According to The Cape Code Times:

“Police are working to recover six department-issued guns from retirees and summer special officers who kept the weapons even after they left the department.”

According to a press release the department learned the guns were no longer in the department’s possession after implementing a new electronic inventory system. Since this time the former officers returned five of the weapons to the police department, but this brings up a noteworthy point.

Time and time again, anti-gun proponents as well as many in the mainstream media like to point out that all illegal guns must begin as legal guns at some point. While we don’t agree with this argument, we’ll add that hardly ever is it mentioned that these legal guns could be those weapons of the police. The thought that a police firearm is missing is upsetting, but consider that taxpayers paid for it… and that’s even more upsetting. About the only thing worse would be if it turns out it was handed in during some “cash for guns” problem. That would be either a trifecta of things that would be terribly disturbing or truly ironic. We’ll go with both.