[GreyFriar]

After the Ft. Hood shooting, the DoD clamped down on soldiers having access to military and personally owned weapons on post. All military personnel assigned to Ft. Hood are required to have their personally owned guns registered and stored in their unit’s arms room. that includes soldier who live off base, they are no permitted by new post regulations to have their personally owned guns in their off post housing, including the homes they own.

Bottomline: all soldiers have been disarmed and are not trusted to have weapons “to prevent another Maj Hassan.” The only personnel allowed to carry firearms and ammunition are the MPs.

[yield 2 the right]

That worked for Fort Hood today/sarcasm off

[funfan]

How come Ivan had a gun then? Seems to me if Ivan Lopez could sneak one in the rest of the Soldiers should do so to protect themselves.

[ArmstedFragg]

“The only personnel allowed to carry firearms and ammunition are the MPs.”

And.. apparently... the Lopez’s.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

The only personnel allowed to carry firearms and ammunition are the MPs.

Apparently, not!

[TADSLOS]

After the Ft. Hood shooting, the DoD clamped down on soldiers having access to military and personally owned weapons on post. All military personnel assigned to Ft. Hood are required to have their personally owned guns registered and stored in their unit’s arms room.

Nothing new. That's been the case since before I joined the Army in 1976, and storing them in the arms room applied only to soldiers living in barracks. Soldiers living in post housing could retain their own personal firearms in their quarters.

...that includes soldier who live off base, they are no permitted by new post regulations to have their personally owned guns in their off post housing, including the homes they own.

...and just how exactly is that going to be enforced?

Do you have a copy of the current Ft Hood reg that states soldiers can't own and maintain personal firearms while residing off post? I'd like to read it.

[Sender]

The first thought that occurs to me is that this is a very large base with many hundreds of vehicles coming in and out every day, and it is logistically impossible to prevent someone from smuggling in small arms in a vehicle. Are they going to stop every car, strip the doors, remove the seats, empty the trunk, inspect the engine and the undercarriage?

It's relatively easy to stop someone from carrying a weapon onto an airplane, but hundreds (if not thousands) of steel vehicles, that's another story.

One contributor on CNN was promising to find out "how weapons got on that base" and FOX speculated that from rumors of alleged witnesses, it was a "high-powered weapon". All the networks are scrambling to find their graphic images of AR-15s just in case they get lucky...

[Sir_Ed]

They can’t own a handgun or hunting rifle off base, in their own home??

What about their kids, their wives?

It almost seems illegal, telling a soldier that he cannot have a weapon in his privately owned home!

Ed