A longtime employee of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives owned one of the companies being investigated by Montgomery County officials for allegedly using a taxpayer-supported tuition assistance program to sell guns at steep discounts, state records show and county officials confirmed.

ATF program manager Gary Schaible is listed in state incorporation records as a co-owner of Global Law Enforcement Advisory Group, which county officials said may have improperly used money from a tuition assistance program to give $200 flashlights to course participants in 2007.