Border Parol agents and custom officers reported fewer incidents of resorting to force this year, saying they used firearms just seven times in the first five month of the fiscal year.
The Secret Service plans to stop any plans to allow guns at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland.
Law enforcement briefly detained 17 men of Middle Eastern descent in a remote part of Apple Valley, Calif., after campers said they heard chanting and hundreds of gunshots Sunday morning.
The failed gun-walking operation known as Fast and Furious has been linked to a .50-caliber rifle found at the hideout of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman.
A woman trying to board a flight was stopped when security found bullet-lined platform shoes with revolvers for heels.
Congressional leaders are demanding answers from Homeland Security following the discovery that it lost 165 firearms in three years.
The FBI and DEA, for example, have failed to adequately minimize risks connected with gun investigations, the report stated.
Shaw took over the Boston office in October and said his experience in counter-terrorism will help crack down on extremists.
