So you trust the government to protect you from criminals? And you think forcing people to register guns will keep criminals from getting guns? Original Article 6,000 Weapons Missing From Museum Museum Denies Any Guns Missing POSTED: 4:28 pm CDT September 21, 2005 UPDATED: 4:42 pm CDT September 21, 2005 CLAREMORE, Okla. -- State auditors said some 6,000 weapons are missing from the J.M. Davis Arms and Historical Museum in Claremore and some have been found at crime scenes. State Auditor Jeff McMahan said when the state-owned museum was founded in the 1960s its inventory listed more than 20,000 firearms and related items. He says there are now only about 14,000. McMahan said he's heard one missing gun was found at a crime scene in New York and another at a crime scene in Muskogee. Claremore Police Chief Mickey Perry said a machine gun from the museum was found in Maine in November. Museum director Duane Kyler denied any guns are missing. The museum's Web site said its collection includes a 500-year-old Chinese hand-cannon, the world's smallest automatic pistol and guns used by Jesse James, Pretty Boy Floyd, Emmett Dalton and Cole Younger. http://www.claremoreprogress.com/archive/article22089 Files seized from Davis Museum Originally published on Wednesday, September 21 By TOM FINK and LINDA MARTIN Staff Writers Responding to a letter from Rogers County District Attorney Gene Haynes, law officers seized an estimated 20 boxes of records and computers on Tuesday from the J.M. Davis Arms and Historical Museum in Claremore. In Haynes letter to Jeff McMahon, Oklahoma state auditor and inspector, he wrote about the Claremore Police Departments recent response to a security alarm at the museum, owned by the State of Oklahoma. From the police investigation, the burglar was identified as the son of a museum employee, Linda Slatton, Haynes said. According to Haynes letter, it was learned through interviews of museum employees that Slatton had allegedly embezzled money from the museum several years earlier, but the alleged embezzlement had never been reported to law officials. Allegedly, the current director of the Museum, Duane Kyler, allowed Slatton to pay the money back and continue her employment, Haynes letter said. The police were also told that Kyler had told current employees not to provide the police information about the burglary, but let them figure it out for themselves. According to police information, in 2004, a fully automatic weapon which was registered to the gun museum was recovered at a crime scene in New York. Haynes said that in light of these facts, police were very concerned about the possibility of other embezzlements of both funds and inventory, indicating that the recent burglary could be used as an excuse to account for missing inventory. When reached for comment, Claremore Police Chief Mickey Perry said it was uncertain how many weapons were suspected missing. At this point, we dont know how many guns may be missing from the museum, Chief Perry said. We just know that there are a lot of questions that need to be answered. Since this is an ongoing investigation, theres not much that I can comment on, said Duane Kyler, executive director, J.M. Davis Arms and Historical Museum. We did have a break-in and it is under investigation we are going to get to the bottom of this. The J.M. Davis Arms & Historical Museum, which showcases historical guns from outlaw Jesse James and others, is remaining open during the investigation.