"All our customers are either law enforcement or New York City permit holders," Mr. Imperato said, "But there are guns that people lose, guns that are stolen from people's houses".
In California, anyone placed on a 72-hour or 14-day psychiatric hold and determined to be a danger to themselves or others loses gun rights for five years.
I can deal with a somewhat low four years, but I couldn't deal with a supreme court that swings liberal and I couldn't deal with losing gun rights.
His expression asked, as many Americans soon would: Did the Republican nominee just raise the prospect that, if he loses, gun owners could attack a President — or federal judges?
This report also is troubling because it is not the only one about police losing guns.
Perhaps the most dangerous of these legislative riders, which have been renewed separately at various points, prohibits the A.T.F. from requiring federally licensed firearms dealers to conduct annual inventories to ensure they have not lost guns or had them stolen.
Fire from Taliban lines has diminished in recent days, though it is not clear whether Taliban forces are saving or running out of ammunition, or have lost guns to the bombing.
The provisions, which have been renewed separately at various points, would prohibit the Bureau of Alcohol , Tobacco Firearms and Explosives from requiring gun dealers to conduct annual inventories to ensure that they have not lost guns or had them stolen, and would retain a broad definition of "antique" guns that can be imported into the United States outside of normal regulations.
Stolen gun reporting: Stolen or lost guns would have to reported within five days.
The ATF has lost guns before, most notably in Operation Fast and Furious, during which the agency lost track of hundreds of weapons, including one that was used in the killing of a Border Patrol agent in December, 2010.
