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ROTC slathers replica M-16s in orange after mistaken active shooter calls
guns.com ^ | Oct. 5, 2016 | Chris Eger

Posted on 10/06/2016 11:46:28 AM PDT by PROCON


The Army’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program, which has delivered military training at colleges and universities since 1916, has been ordered to tape their guns in high viz orange for safety.

The news, reported by The Washington Post this week, comes after incidents where students and faculty have mistaken drills by cadets with inert guns as dangerous active shooters.

Now, under the orders of Maj. Gen. Christopher P. Hughes, the 250 Army ROTC units and 700 affiliates will conduct on campus training with simulated weapons (using empty hands mimicking carrying guns) while taking extra precautions in transport and storage of inert drill rifles– including applying orange tape.

“Due to the national increase of workplace and campus shootings, our training requires increased coordination, on and off-campus, with appropriate authorities to enhance our safety and minimize misperception by civilian populace or local authorities,” Hughes said in the new policy.

Meanwhile, in Russia…


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To: Boogieman

“So if a real shooter puts orange tape on his gun, what are the disarmed sheeple going to do?”

Simulate return fire with their hands.


21 posted on 10/06/2016 12:11:53 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: PROCON
Yes, but does the tape match their high heels?


22 posted on 10/06/2016 12:13:22 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Vote Trump. Defeat the Clinton Crime Syndicate. Reset America.)
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To: TADSLOS

I think they are out of uniform...


23 posted on 10/06/2016 12:15:34 PM PDT by Mr. K (<a href="https://imgflip.com/i/1adpjl"><img src="https://i.imgflip.com/1adpjl.jpg" title="made at im)
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To: tumblindice

My grandad did the same thing when he was in HS - took the bus to school and on target shooting days would have his .22 rifle up between his legs on the school bus. He also ran around NYC as a kid when he was nine.


24 posted on 10/06/2016 12:17:10 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Ambtion Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: DBrow

No, you can’t return fire with your hands by pointing at the active terrorist.

It’s illegal to point like a gun with your finger in school!


25 posted on 10/06/2016 12:17:41 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: tumblindice
My grandad did the same thing when he was in HS - took the bus to school and on target shooting days would have his .22 rifle up between his legs on the school bus. He also ran around NYC as a kid when he was nine.

Meant to add: He ran around NYC alone.

26 posted on 10/06/2016 12:18:03 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Ambtion Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: TADSLOS

How humiliating.


27 posted on 10/06/2016 12:22:06 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: Yo-Yo
ROTC ...was performing color guard drill practice using inert M1s and someone called in an active shooter report...

So now with the practice rifles all blaze orange, the snowflakes can call in active shooter reports from 4 times the distance away...

28 posted on 10/06/2016 12:23:11 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: SkyDancer

We had a .22 rifle range in the basement of our high school cafeteria...used to carry soft cased rifles across campus to the range from the armory all the time. Sometimes brought soft cased .22 rifles from home. Wish so much we could return to the times of sanity.


29 posted on 10/06/2016 12:26:40 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: Magnum44

We had an active .22 range at Michigan State University under The Army’s “Demonstration Hall”. I learned on an Army-owned Remington 513T rifle. We also shot M-16s with the .22LR subcal devices. When I go back, I always forget to ask if the range is still active.


30 posted on 10/06/2016 12:29:33 PM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: PROCON

When I attended the selection course for SF in NC we were given dummy M-16s that were orange. I thought it was pretty stupid back then too (1995).


31 posted on 10/06/2016 12:30:54 PM PDT by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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To: PROCON

I really don’t see the problem with them making this rule. What’s the big deal? Maybe if they did a better job putting the tape on...they would look more presentable. Or maybe just two orange stripes on the barrel.


32 posted on 10/06/2016 12:41:43 PM PDT by koalkracker1981
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To: koalkracker1981
The problem as I see it, is that too many people fear an inanimate object.

America has lost its collective 'balls.'

33 posted on 10/06/2016 12:44:04 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: PROCON

An armed society is a polite society.

34 posted on 10/06/2016 12:44:32 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: PROCON

Should work for umbrellas, right?

35 posted on 10/06/2016 12:47:12 PM PDT by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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To: PROCON

For the love of ****. Trump has to win or we are doomed.


36 posted on 10/06/2016 12:47:48 PM PDT by ClayinVA ("Those who don't remember history are doomed to repeat it")
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To: PROCON

Because there is no way I could tape up an AR-15 like that...


37 posted on 10/06/2016 12:49:17 PM PDT by thorvaldr
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To: Magnum44

Too late for that. The inmates are now running the asylum. As I wrote; when my GD would get off the bus he’d lock his rifle in his locker in the hallway and then after school go to the rifle range that was under the gym.


38 posted on 10/06/2016 12:59:07 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Ambtion Without Talent Is Sad - Talent Without Ambition Is Worse)
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To: PROCON; 2ndDivisionVet

And don’t forget to put flowers in the barrels.


39 posted on 10/06/2016 2:25:21 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: SJSAMPLE
We had an active .22 range at Michigan State University under The Army’s “Demonstration Hall”.

We used to march in Dem Hall when I went to AFROTC. I never used the range.

Is Dem Hall still there or did they demolish it?

40 posted on 10/06/2016 3:32:00 PM PDT by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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