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I was the only one that bothered to figure out how to make a double sided copy (which comes in handy in cutting back paper space)!One day, I was formatting a used controlled substance inventory form. Controlled substances such as oxycodone and morphine are medications that every portion, pill, iota and drop must be legally accounted for. Which, among other things, means that once a controlled substance form has been started… it can NOT be changed or exchanged!!!And so, I was reformatting this inventory form by copying a mirror image blank form on the backside of this form. In that way, the entire balance of medication would be covered on one sheet of paper. But what I didn’t know was that the last person that used the copier let it run out of paper before the last print job had been completed. What’s that mean?Besides disaster, it resulted in the blank side of a controlled inventory form having a page from the last print job printed on it instead of the grid necessary to keep the numerical balance organized. And the form could NOT be legally changed! Talk about a complete disaster and a legally inappropriate form. For now the front side of the form contained the numerical balance of a patient’s remaining morphine while the other side of the form now offered a 10% off coupon for Pizza Hut!!!!

According to federal law, the DEA only requires the report of a significant loss or theft of a controlled substance. This is done with a DEA form 106.Now there is a significant difference in state laws versus DEA regulation.I practice in Michigan, and in our state we are required to report all losses and theft of controlled substances no matter what schedule to both the Board of Pharmacy and the DEA.Additionally, Michigan requires pharmacies to inventory controlled substances on an annual basis where the DEA requires such act be performed every other year.Follow the more strict law, your state may require more frequent filings than the DEA.

This answer may contain sensitive images. Click on an image to unblur it.Really? Well, let’s start with:18 USC 922(g)(g)It shall be unlawful for any person—(1) who has been convicted in any court of, a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year;(2) who is a fugitive from justice;(3) who is an unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance (as defined in section 102 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 802));(4) who has been adjudicated as a mental defective or who has been committed to a mental institution;(5) who, being an alien—(A) is illegally or unlawfully in the United States; or(B) except as provided in subsection (y)(2), has been admitted to the United States under a nonimmigrant visa (as that term is defined in section 101(a)(26) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(26)));(6) who has been discharged from the Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions;(7) who, having been a citizen of the United States, has renounced his citizenship;(8) who is subject to a court order that—(A) was issued after a hearing of which such person received actual notice, and at which such person had an opportunity to participate;(B) restrains such person from harassing, stalking, or threatening an intimate partner of such person or child of such intimate partner or person, or engaging in other conduct that would place an intimate partner in reasonable fear of bodily injury to the partner or child; and(C) (i) includes a finding that such person represents a credible threat to the physical safety of such intimate partner or child; or(ii) by its terms explicitly prohibits the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against such intimate partner or child that would reasonably be expected to cause bodily injury; or(9) who has been convicted in any court of a misdemeanor crime of domestic violence,to ship or transport in interstate or foreign commerce, or possess in or affecting commerce, any firearm or ammunition; or to receive any firearm or ammunition which has been shipped or transported in interstate or foreign commerce.This is the Federal “prohibited persons” provision, a cornerstone of Federal firearms law. It describes the various criteria defining a “prohibited person”, and actually prohibits them shipping, transporting, receiving or possessing any firearm in or affecting interstate commerce (and any gun that’s been in an FFL’s hands has, by definition, moved in interstate commerce). Punishment for violating this section of the US Code is laid out in Section 924(a)(2), and prescribes a punishment not to exceed 10 years imprisonment and a fine not to exceed $250,000. 18 U.S. Code § 922 - Unlawful acts, 18 U.S. Code § 924 - Penalties, 18 U.S. Code § 3571 - Sentence of fineThe National Instant Check System or NICS is required to be used by all FFLs transferring a firearm from their possession to anyone who isn’t an FFL or the lawful owner of the firearm giving it to the FFL for purposes of inspection, repair or sale who is now due to reclaim his property. That requirement is paragraph (s) of section 922.NICS conducted about 26 million background checks in 2018 (a few million of those are in furtherance of carry permit laws in some states; most are for purchase of a firearm). From 1998 through 2018 it has issued 1.6 million denials, or about 80 thousand a year. Depending on the specific year those denials can be as high as 120,000. NICS Firearm Checks: Month/Year | Federal Bureau of Investigation, Federal Denials | Federal Bureau of InvestigationThese denials are evidence of a crime; up to 120,000 people in a year tried to buy a firearm with a prohibiting event on their record. The most common reason for denial was for conviction on a felony offense, followed by being a fugitive from justice (active arrest warrant pending), being an unlawful user of marijuana or narcotic drugs (it’s still illegal under Federal law), and misdemeanor domestic violence convictions. These are generally not things you just forget when you belly up to the counter of a gun store, so the general assumption is that 120,000 people are committing a 10-year Federal felony.How many are prosecuted, annually? About 12. Approximately one one-hundredth of one percent of people who intentionally tried to buy a firearm with a legitimate prohibiting event on their Federal record actually see a courtroom for committing this crime. Only about 1% are even given a second look by the FBI/ATF. https://www.gao.gov/assets/700/694290.pdfWhile I wouldn’t expect 100k prosecutions annually, for a number of reasons (false denials are a thing, and it’s plausible that someone might be unaware they are a fugitive from justice or that a particular event in their lives is considered prohibiting), these can be better resolved with dramatic improvement in long-term crime numbers by following up on the denial. If the denial was incorrectly issued, the records can be cleaned up, minimizing the chance this will be a problem in future. If a person was unaware of a prohibiting event or that an event was prohibiting, it could be an honest mistake, “everybody gets one”. But now you’re on notice; you can’t own a firearm, and Feds should follow up with local law enforcement to be sure they don’t (or that the prohibiting event is resolved; being a fugitive from justice can be as simple as a failure to appear warrant for a speeding ticket, not a permanent disqualifier).Now, that’s assuming they’re denied in the first place. The Sutherland Springs church shooting happened because the Air Force JAG forgot to report Devin Kelley’s domestic violence court-martial and bad conduct discharge to NICS, and as a result, his record was clear enough that an Academy Sports outside San Antonio sold him the AR-15 he used in the shooting as well as two other pistols he had on him at the conclusion of the chase. A subsequent audit of all military Judge Advocate General’s Corps dispositions found over 4000 other disqualifying convictions that went unreported to NICS; this represents about 8 years’ worth of the JAG Corps’ total caseload. So Kelley wasn’t an isolated “whoopsie” that fell through the cracks; they weren’t even trying.You want another one? How about…18 USC 922(q)This is the Federal Gun-Free School Zones Act. Passed largely in response to the Stockton Shooting as well as a worrying general rise in violent crime and gang violence correlated with the 1990–91 recession, Congress made it illegal to possess a firearm while in a school zone (basically within 1000 feet of the nearest entrance to a school building), unless the person was a law enforcement officer on duty, was on their own property, was participating in a school-sanctioned event for which the gun was necessary, or if State law made other provisions for licensed firearm carriers. After a round through the courts challenging Congress’s power to make such a law (the initial version relied on the fact that public schools received Federal funds and were therefore Federal facilities, which was rejected by SCOTUS), an amended version using the Commerce Clause to define the prohibited guns was allowed to stand in 1998.Enforcement? Boils down to a few million of these littered on poles next to sidewalks and streets:For 99% of schools, that’s the extent of the means to proactively enforce this law.One guess how many school shooters have seen the sign and gone “oh darn, guess I won’t be committing multiple counts of premeditated murder here, there’s a sign on a post warning of a 5-year Federal prison sentence if I walk past it with a gun”.If you want a “gun free zone”, a real one, this is how you do it:Entry checkpoints with metal detectors and armed security. Ideally, backed up with a few of these guys strategically positioned to be able to quickly get to any of a few nearby checkpoints:They don’t have to be fully kitted out SWAT-style, just visibly present and visibly ready for some put-upon little punk in a trenchcoat planning on taking his frustrations out on his classmates. A would-be shooter can try to shoot his way past a security checkpoint, Matrix-style, but against several officers trained not only to shoot but to work together, that can group and converge in seconds instead of minutes, that shooter’s not getting to the kinds of double-digit casualty counts that make shooters into household names.What’s that I hear? “Too expensive”? “Requires double the current active-duty police force during school hours”? “10,000 public schools needing security retrofits that already can’t afford textbooks”? Valid points, all. But I’ll let you in on a little secret; you’d need all this anyway to actively prevent mass killings at schools. Even without any so-called “assault weapons” in civilian hands. Most events tracked as “mass shootings” by the Gun Violence Archive are committed with handguns, which the Supreme Court ruled are very definitely protected by the 2A regarding their ownership and storage in a ready-to-use state. So you can do whatever you think is in your power to ban scary-looking rifles, and kids intent on killing classmates will break into their parents’ safe for a 9mm with 10-round magazines, and with just two or three magazines he’ll have enough to be all the cable news networks can talk about for days. Even short of that, mass shooters have also brought bombs to school (fortunately for us, to date, they’ve been lousy bombmakers), and in countries with strict gun control, vehicles are the weapon of choice.There is, of course, a less expensive option:Yeah, yeah, get it all out of your system. I’m calling to “arm the teachers”, so naturally I want overworked underpaid educators who routinely engage in fistfights with their own students in many areas of the country to be packing, so instead of simply body-slamming an unruly student they can empty a magazine into him.And why not? Coach Aaron Feis was a security guard when not coaching football at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. He had a Florida carry permit. But as school faculty, he was prohibited to carry a firearm on campus. Had he had the opportunity to shoot back instead of valiantly (and vainly) trying to shield students from the gunfire, some lives might have been saved at the cost of one mentally-deranged recently-expelled former student who had already fallen through every single extant crack in the school, social and criminal justice systems at every level.This story of teachers being willing and able, but prevented by law, from carrying on campus is repeated across every school in the country. You balk at the cost in man-hours and equipment required to “harden the targets” with entry checkpoints; the very least we can do is allow the teachers who are willing and able to maintain proficiency with a firearm to carry that firearm in their own workplace. They have to be there anyway. We’re already paying their salaries to teach our kids. Subsidizing the cost of their carry permits and making an exception to the law can be done at a small fraction of the cost of a single police officer or private security contractor.And besides, teachers own guns. This is not news. People can easily bring weapons into schools. This is not news either. If teachers carrying concealed at school were going to be a problem, it would already be one. A teacher would already have been the perpetrator of a mass shooting, laws or no laws; they’re subjected to even less scrutiny by what little campus security we have than the students.This is classic “blood in the streets” dire prediction mode from gun control advocates, that they roll out any time there’s a proposal to increase the presence of weapons held by trained, licensed law-abiding individuals. It has never come true. Concealed carry, open carry, Constitutional carry; every time one of these laws is proposed, you hear “wild wild west, people gunned down for jaywalking”. Hasn’t happened yet, in fact by most measures concealed carriers are more law-abiding than the police themselves.The ATF, at last report, has a budget of about $1.2 billion, with which it employs about 5,000 total enforcement agents and administrative staff. Those manpower numbers are nearly identical to the numbers from 2000, and the budget increases are easily attributable to COLAs based on inflation in that time. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and ExplosivesThe agency is required by law to audit every FFL’s sales and inventory records annually. It manages a full audit of just 7% of the roughly 135,000 FFLs. It is also required to process and approve NFA forms for the manufacture, sale, purchase and licensure of Title II weapons categories, as well as ordinary FFLs. Last I checked the backlog on this paperwork was about 8 months long.A records retention center in West Virginia houses not only NICS, but the ATF Firearms Tracing Center and a records repository “of last resort” for 4473 forms and inventory logs of gun dealers who have gone out of business without a successor entity to take over the bookkeeping. As of the mid-2010s, that facility was literally bursting at the seams and buckling the rafters under the weight of paper records it is generally prohibited to digitize in any computationally-queryable formatunder the Firearm Owner’s Protection Act, because a searchable database of gun transaction records is a “registry” and the US government is forbidden by law to maintain one. It recently got approval to scan them in as ordinary image files, no OCR or other metadata translation allowed, and searchable only by filename, basically giving them a digital equivalent of the paper file system they were managing. That effort is still ongoing, as they had about 285 million records as of when they got the ability to do this, and receive about two million new sheets of paper every month.So the ATF does not have the people or the funding it requires to do the job with which it is tasked. This causes it to chronically fail to meaningfully enforce the bulk of US firearms law, simply because it does not have the time to devote to a full investigation. Neither, for that matter, does the FBI, who is better-funded, but most of its funding in the 21st Century has been earmarked for counter-terrorism, drug interdiction and financial crimes in partnership with other three-letter agencies. They’re not going to drop all that to go bust Johnny Gangbanger for trucking straw-bought handguns across the Indiana-Illinois border to sell on Chicago’s West Side or in East St Louis. That leaves the matter to State and local law enforcement, where laws for felon-in-possession and for trafficking across state lines either don’t exist or carry much lower penalties (a year or two in jail instead of 10). Most of these charges end up getting dropped in plea-bargain deals for crimes with more public interest like drug possession or burglary.