[afraidfortherepublic]

Walker orders some members of the Wisconsin Army National Guard to be armed by executive order.

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[onedoug]

ø freaking out.

[alancarp]

Alabama did so yesterday. In addition, volunteers in Huntsville are now manning military recruitment centers with an armed presence.

[Calpublican]

Would it be legal for governors to send National Guard to protect recruiting stations and other unarmed military?

[DBrow]

So the Guard is armed and the Army and Marines are not.

[Mopp4]

The hope is that the move will prevent a similar attack.

This is of course the common sense move....you make yourself a "hard target". I'm glad the Governor is not waiting for action from the White House.

Mopp4, USAF Retired - E7

[toddausauras]

Trump is taking a lot of the oxygen out of the room but Scott is doing and saying a lot of good things. Trump and Walker and Cruz. The rest? GET LOST.

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Since the army has rejected arming soldiers at recruiting centers, I wonder if a governor could station armed National Guardsmen, still under state control, in those federal centers as guards for the soldiers?

[JoeFromSidney]

When I was a member of the Naval Reserve, back in the late 1940s, several senior NCOs would be armed during the weekly drills at the Center. I presume the same policy existed at the Army National Guard armory, but I don't know for sure. In any case, there were never any "accidents" with the firearms during my time in the Reserve.