Range Guys: How are you tracking firearms inventory?

[KeeFus]

Spreadsheet.

[Austin Millbarge]

At my last agency we tracked thousands of firearms. 1100 or so sworn.

Spreadsheet, plus a paper transfer form for each firearm, three copies. One copy in a binder by date of issue or transfer, one copy in that firearms file, one copy in the Troopers file.

The idea being redundancy of the inventory. It was a giant pain in the ass to do all the paperwork, enter it in our inventory file, then in the Troopers file, then in the transfer book by date.

But we didn’t lose guns. So there’s that.

Our last fall back was qual records. See who qual’d with it last.

[psalms144.1]

Excel spreadsheet for me. At one point, I was the lead FI for a Field Office of about 50 agents scattered across 9 states. Excel worked for me tracking both issued and authorized personal weapons.

[DaBigBR]

I spent the entire morning looking for a "missing" gun. Inventory showed it not assigned. Was not in storage. Found it by checking with our five people in the academy...not logged out to one of them.

I appreciate everybody's input so far. I am interested in Armorerlink but am not "allowed" to speak to vendors because we have no RFP out.