Federal officials investigating missing semi-automatic rifles
Published August 18, 2014
Associated Press
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DES PLAINES, Ill. – Federal officials are investigating after two
semi-automatic rifles given to the Des Plaines police department more
than a decade ago were discovered missing.

The (Arlington Heights) Daily Herald reports the agency that manages the
Defense Department's surplus property program referred the matter to its
Office of the Inspector General.

Police Chief Bill Kushner says the department will cooperate "in every
possible way."

Des Plaines received a pair of M-16A1 rifles in 2002 through a
Department of Defense program that supplies local law enforcement with
surplus military equipment.

The police department reported the rifles missing in January after a
required weapons inventory.

Kushner said records keeping between 2007 and 2013 was "so muddled and
virtually nonexistent" it's been impossible to determine who used the
guns and how they were lost.

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I'm not sure about this, but I think the M-16A1's are not *semi*
automatic. Why would the cops in a mostly German/Polish suburb of
Chicago like Des Plaines need full auto rifles?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOUiohaZ7CY