Federal Law Enforcement Purchases and Inventory Controls of Firearms, Ammunition, and Tactical Equipment

Abstract

Are federal law enforcement agencies accurately reporting how much they spend on firearms, ammunition, and tactical equipment? We found that federal agencies internal data on these purchases did not always match data that were publicly available on USASpending.gov. For example, ICE told us that it spent 8 times more on firearms than the amount we calculated using data from the website. This was partly because other agencies used ICE contracts to buy firearms, but werent properly identified in ICE's website data. We recommended that ICE update its contracting process to include the names of these agencies.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 13, 2018
Accession Number
AD1157424

Entities

People

  • Gretta L. Goodwin

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Automatic Guns
  • Crime
  • Criminal Investigations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Environmental Protection
  • Explosives
  • Financial Management
  • Homeland Security
  • Law Enforcement Officers
  • Machine Guns
  • National Governments
  • Personnel Management
  • United States
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Government and Public Administration Law.