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Shocked by an Associated Press investigation into the loss and theft of military guns, the Pentagon's top general signaled Thursday that he will consider a "systematic fix" to how the armed services keep account of their firearms.

The AP's investigation reported how some of the missing guns have been stolen and later used in violent street crimes, while many others have vanished without a clue from the military's enormous supply chains.

In all, AP identified at least 1,900 guns that the four armed services recorded as lost or stolen during the 2010s. Because some of the service branches provid...