“Officials say Hasan used two handguns, including a semi-automatic, to fire at fellow soldiers. Neither of the guns was military-issue.”
Found the above at the Dallas Morning News which means his training was outside the military since the guns he used were not military-issue. Military doesn’t usually waste time on training doctors to shoot.
If what I read elsewhere is true it makes one wonder why he felt a need to be a good shooter. Also, in keeping with what you said I doubt as a psychiatrist he was issued a handgun.
I think he just couldn’t bear, as a “good” Muslim, to be directly involved with fighting his fellow jihadists. Instead, he had his own jihad at home.
In Islam, what is good and what is bad? It all seems backward to me.
Good is enslaving women, imprisoning people with an improper beard, slaying your own daughters or wives for some perceived harm to one’s honor, killing all who are not like you. Bad is the improper beard, a woman showing more than her eyes in public, etc.
How can there possibly be peace and honor living like that?
It would have been highly unusual for him to have used a military issue weapon because those are kept locked up in the company arms room except for training when they are needed. He could not have just walked up to the company armorer and said “I need to check my pistol out for a couple of hours.” The armorer would have to check with his 1st Sergeant and/or company commander first. Just because he was an officer, he could not legally order the armorer to give it to him because the company commander is “owns” all of the unit’s weapons and is the only person who can authorize them being issued while a unit is in garrison.
At least these were the rules at Ft. Hood in 1979-80 when I was there and when I was a squadron and brigade S-2 in Germany 83-89. And knowing the “anal-retentiveness” of the Army, those rules would not have been loosened over they last 30 years.