No need to add much to this, it speaks for itself, the report and the embedded links!
ATF: Nearly 20,000 firearms lost or stolen last year from FFL holders
4/15/14 - The nation’s more than 60,000 Federal Firearms License holders reported 19,601 firearms lost or stolen in 2013, according to a new report published by the ATF but mandated by the White House.
The FFL Theft-Losses Report (pdf), compiled by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, draws its information from the agency’s Firearms Tracing System (FTS), which tracks guns reported lost or stolen firearms reported by FFLs.
This new annual report is part of President Obama’s series of 23 executive actions implemented in 2013 in response to the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. One of those actions required the Department of Justice to prepare a report analyzing information on lost and stolen guns and to make the report widely available, hence the new FFL Theft/Loss Report. read more>>>
Just one, very recent, of the many instances related. First responders pull back quickly from these fires, letting the structures burn while fighting from safer distances and trying to contain from spreading, for fear of grave injuries or possible deaths from the exploding of stored ammunition. Many now are storing thousands of rounds and rushing out to purchase more whenever the fear meme's are spread and heard by the irresponsible and well over the line paranoid.
Apr 16, 2014 - Wind feeds fire as ammo explodes inside
Will just add this which I've used previously:
Militia's?
These aren't 'militia's', they're no different then the armed gangs found in cities and towns all over. Untrained armed extremists with unlawful agenda's. Many, and members within, are doing exactly the same as any gang. Drug use and trafficking, gun trafficking, unlawful acts to enrich or maintain their extremist ways, reigning terror on any and all in the communities they exist by their actions and speak, even with their own gang colors and patches along with tattoo's today, terror cells called domestic, all hiding behind the flag in attempts to justify and adding their own flags they worship.
Dregs in and on a Civil Society!!
And the continued use of what they want to be called, Militia's, in the press and by everyone else, same as their use of Christianity always has, gives them the credibility they seek. In a society that once finally had almost completely recognized what they really were and pushed them into the darkness, making it extremely harder to recruit to their ranks.