Ottawa Police Missing WWII-Era Machine Gun

And here I was thinking something like a M2 or MG-42 LOL.

Ottawa Police Missing WWII-Era Machine Gun

Machine Gun Last Seen Nearly 40 Years Ago


POSTED: 12:26 pm CST March 5, 2009
UPDATED: 12:35 pm CST March 5, 2009


OTTAWA, Kan. -- Police in the eastern Kansas town of Ottawa are searching for a missing World War II-era machine gun last seen in their inventory nearly 40 years ago.

Police Chief Dennis Butler said he requested an inventory list of weapons as part of an internal audit for the department.

Police personnel have since searched extensively for a German model MP40 9 mm machine gun with the serial No. 3906P.

The Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has been contacted and former police chiefs and firearms custodians were interviewed.


Ottawa police acquired the gun in 1964 and registered it with the ATF in 1968. Butler said there is a report the gun was seen in 1972, but he can't confirm it.

The gun has been entered in the National Criminal Information Center as stolen.

Ottawa Police Missing WWII-Era Machine Gun - Kansas City News Story - KCTV Kansas City

 

Merciful Heavens!

What is this nation coming to? We can't even trust the police to keep such destructive and dangerous weapons from falling into unknown and dangerous hands.

There oughta be a law!

Hell, it was probably stolen by some police brass hat when he retired and now resides in his dusty old gun cabinet. This story is about as worrisome as somebody stealing a Red Ryder BB gun from a museum!

If I remember ccrrectly, about four or five years ago, it was revealed that several H&K MP5's were missing from the FBI's inventory. As far as I know they were never located. If they were ever used in any crimes, the FBI has never admitted it.

BTW, this article just goes to show the average newspaper journalist couldn't tell a machine gun from elephant poop.

 

Yeah sadly anything that fires automatic style is called a machine gun.

 

Back in the early 1990s my USMC reserve unit shared a cluster of buildings with a couple of US Army reserve units. Post Desert Storm the Army IG decended upon one of the hapless ArRes companys. Almost imeadiatly they found a M1911 45 cal automatic pistol missing from the armory. Fore long one of the inspectors came thru the seldom used double doors to our side of the building and politely asked to look in our armory for said pistol. We graciously opened up and let him poke about til satisfied. In the post look chat the Army Captain divulged that: A. the missing pistol had not been documented as present for nearly four years. B. The Army Reserve armorer responsible claimed he had loaned the pistol to the Marines. C. About every other piece of paperwork in the company was failing inspection.

The pistol was never found and within 48 hours the bulk of the company staff, Reserve & Active, were not to be found either.

 

And of course anything with tracks is a tank too .