Back in the old days, when soldiers slept in squad bay wood barracks, their rifles were kept in racks at the ready.
On Fort Jackson where I work, the trainees are issued their individual weapons and eat/sleep/train with them and do not turn them back to the arms room until they graduate.
Discharge barrels and amnesty boxes are everywhere. Not like it once was, but similar. Ammo, however, is under unbelievably tight control.
“Ammo, however, is under unbelievably tight control.”
Back in the real old days (SpanAm War), even ammunition wasn’t under such tight control. Where I work, only a handful of MilPo and contractor security are armed. Maybe they should stop calling them “Forts”....