ATF agents searching for thousands of guns stolen from their facility before they could be destroyed

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https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/investigations/2019/06/13/atf-looking-guns-and-glock-parts-stolen-and-sold-guard/1425467001/

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By John Diedrich
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
June 13, 2019

ATF agents across the country have been working to track down thousands of 
guns and firearms parts that had been seized by law enforcement and were 
supposed to be destroyed but were stolen first, according to sources 
familiar with the effort.

The agents are searching for some of their own retired service weapons as 
well as guns from other federal law enforcement agencies, including the 
FBI and DEA.

All of the weapons had been sent to the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, 
Firearms and Explosives' National Firearms and Ammunition Destruction 
Branch in Martinsburg, West Virginia, to be shredded, according to court 
documents and congressional letters.

A longtime guard at the ATF facility has admitted to carting off thousands 
of firearms, gun parts and ammunition and selling them over several years.

Christopher Yates, 52, a guard who worked as a contract employee for ATF 
for 16 years, was charged in federal court in West Virginia. He pleaded 
guilty in April to possession of a stolen gun and stealing government 
property.

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