It's not uncommon for guns to get stolen from homes during burglaries or from gun stores themselves.
But what we don't hear a lot about is police-issued firearms that have gone missing from Michigan's largest police departments.
Since 2010, 42 weapons have disappeared from the Detroit Police Department, Wayne County Sheriffs Department and Michigan State Police, with most being reported stolen, reports Ross Jones of WXYZ.
Eight of the weapons were later recovered, including some that were used, according to police, in the commission of other crimes.
In one instance, last November a man pulled out a gun on Detroit police officers during a routine traffic stop, Jones reports. Police wrestled the firearm away before he could get off a shot, and they later discovered the gun was a Detroit-police issued .40 caliber Smith and Wesson that had been stolen two months earlier from an officer’s home.
