[marktwain]

Here is a more realistic analysis:

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2016/11/dod-contingency-for-president-trump.html

[uncommonsense]

That analysis gives good insight into the bureaucratic obstacles of this directive. The ridiculous thing is that Army Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley argued against this minor change to policy, or, could it be that their skill in theater is extraordinary and their fight against this is to show how substantial it is so that it remains unaddressed by the new administration.

This article/blog points out that the rank required to approve each request is a Commander. A commander doesn't have time for low-level matters of approving and reapproving vetted requests to carry a firearm. This creates an entire sub-process for receiving requests, doing the vetting, assuring individual compliance, auditing the process for conformance to regulations, and so on.

Yeah, I can see this was for show and it really does nothing from a practical matter to allow firearm carry on base.