DAVE KOPEL’S (AND ROBERT RACANSKY’S) GUN CONTROL FOR COPS PROPOSAL is looking better all the time:

WASHINGTON (AP) – Five agencies under Justice Department jurisdiction, including the FBI and DEA, have reported 775 missing or stolen weapons and 400 missing laptop computers, says a report released Monday.

Some of the weapons were used to commit crimes and the classification level of 218 of the missing laptops is unknown, said the audit report by the department’s Office of Inspector General, an internal investigative unit.

The bulk of the missing weapons belonged to the FBI and the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

The report noted that “it is possible that the missing laptop computers would have been used to process and store national security or sensitive law enforcement information that, if divulged, could harm the public.”

Before last year, the FBI had not taken a complete inventory of laptops and weapons in almost a decade, despite an agency policy requiring such an inventory be taken every two years, said Inspector General Glenn A. Fine.

Well, that certainly relieves my concerns about Homeland Security.