Posted on 07/20/2015 9:43:07 AM PDT by george76
There will come a day in the future when we will have to do the same. Unfortunately, it will take a Beslan type attack here at home to move it in that direction and likely hundreds will die first. But then, that doesn't faze either the PC or anti-gun crowd.
Are Congress critters protected with armed guards? (Rhetorical, I know the answer.)....Then so should our MILITARY, you idgits!
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Returning the spent brass and unfired ammo dates back at least to 1964 (that’s right, 1964) when I attended ROTC summer camp at Ft. Riley, KS. I can see a good reason for returning both in that green troops shouldn’t have live ammo in the barracks and not policing the spent brass would leave a huge mess in a very short time. Further, spent brass can be reloaded, sold, or recycled, saving Sam at least some money. I don’t know what they did with the spent brass at either Ft. Riley or Ft. Lee, VA where I took officer’s basic and where they followed the same practice. BTW, in 1968 all an officer had to do was register a personal fire arm. Having done that, he could keep it in a BOQ or pretty much wherever else he deemed appropriate. Nobody ever thought very much about it and I never heard of any troubles resulting from the practice.
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Returning the spent brass and unfired ammo dates back at least to 1964 (that’s right, 1964) when I attended ROTC summer camp at Ft. Riley, KS. I can see a good reason for returning both in that green troops shouldn’t have live ammo in the barracks and not policing the spent brass would leave a huge mess in a very short time. Further, spent brass can be reloaded, sold, or recycled, saving Sam at least some money. I don’t know what they did with the spent brass at either Ft. Riley or Ft. Lee, VA where I took officer’s basic and where they followed the same practice. BTW, in 1968 all an officer had to do was register a personal fire arm. Having done that, he could keep it in a BOQ or pretty much wherever else he deemed appropriate. Nobody ever thought very much about it and I never heard of any troubles resulting from the practice.
Well he and most the others there carried their own personal weapons, I don’t believe they were wearing military issue, but I can remember distinctly him packing daily and when visiting him at work during that time everyone had a handgun of some sort on their hip in the offices.
I remember asking him why he started carrying it as open as he was during that time, he told me he was advised to by his command since we were at war and they could be considered a soft target.
Blew my mind when I found out that doing so today would be a violation.
Clinton. This is why we need to always be diligent.
This is generally impractical for a whole litany of military reasons. About the only way it could be done would be to require all officers to be issued sidearms that they would have to carry, even during PT. And most units do not have enough sidearms to be issued to all officers at once. To do their pistol qualifications, anywhere from 3-5 officers have to share a gun.
Personally owned weapons are right out, as they are not uniform, would have to be stored and inspected in an arms room that is typically unmanned, and would be a major pain to transport on to or off post.
And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Congress is weighing it, but there is no problem for them to have armed protection if needed.
They should have never been disarmed. Who did that??
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I don’t remember when state side troops were allowed to be armed unless in training, at the range for example.
“Congress” is totally retarded.
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