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REVEALED: Pentagon Quietly Tells Servicemen They Can Arm Themselves After Trump Win
Conservative Tribune ^ | N/S | N/S

Posted on 11/24/2016 9:12:06 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft

The Department of Defense released an official directive last week to allow U.S. military personnel to request permission to carry concealed handguns for protection at government facilities.

The directive came in response to a series of deadly shootings at military sites in recent years. Domestic military bases need no longer be “gun-free zones,” a change the department has been working on for several years.

(Excerpt) Read more at conservativetribune.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: military; selfdefense
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Never been to this site, 1st time I've seen it. No authors or dates. If its true, its about time the decision was made. BTW, what ever happened to Major Hassan? Its been awful quiet.
1 posted on 11/24/2016 9:12:06 AM PST by Bringbackthedraft
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Whatever did, the odds of their being another one who manages to multiply carnage like that has just dived.


2 posted on 11/24/2016 9:14:00 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Does that include on the battlefield?


3 posted on 11/24/2016 9:14:10 AM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Obummer will likely stop this until Jan 20. (asshole)


4 posted on 11/24/2016 9:18:39 AM PST by umgud (ban all infidelaphobics)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

I hope it’s true. If it isn’t, Trump should make it a priority.


5 posted on 11/24/2016 9:20:38 AM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

About time, indeed.


6 posted on 11/24/2016 9:21:15 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Texas Eagle

That sounds crazy... but aren’t there situations now where troops could be using crew-served weapons but with no personal weapons?


7 posted on 11/24/2016 9:22:57 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Texas Eagle

I mean crazy that they wouldn’t be armed on a battlefield


8 posted on 11/24/2016 9:23:19 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft
Article from Tuesday:

Pentagon to End Gun-Free Zones on Military Bases
 
11/22/2016 3:37:11 PM PST · by ConfidentConservative · 65 replies
breitbart ^ | 22 Nov 2016 | AWR Hawkins
On November 18, the Pentagon issued a Defense Department directive that will “allow Department of Defense (D0D) personnel to carry firearms and employ deadly force while performing official duties.”

9 posted on 11/24/2016 9:32:14 AM PST by TomGuy
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“Obummer will likely stop this until Jan 20. (asshole)”

Sounds like he’s already been stopped. With the time remaining, he couldn’t even find out who is responsible for the change. And my bet is that the DoD can’t wait to see him waive goodbye from the doorway of AF-1.


10 posted on 11/24/2016 9:36:07 AM PST by vette6387
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To: Bringbackthedraft

I think the story is true because I have seen it from other sources.

Now, I see problems with it. The problems are that it is “may issue” at the commander’s discretion, and that it only applies to officers above a fairly high rank.

My belief is that Obama is behind it as a minimal way to arm people on our bases, without really getting enough weapons into general carry to really improve safety. And to try to head off Trump who wants a much broader carry policy.

I don’t think this policy would have helped against Nidal Hasan.

I hope Trump expands it greatly.


11 posted on 11/24/2016 9:43:01 AM PST by CurlyDave
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It is a bureaucratic head fake in an attempt to avoid Trump fulfilling his promise.

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2016/11/dod-contingency-for-president-trump.html


12 posted on 11/24/2016 9:43:51 AM PST by marktwain
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To: Bringbackthedraft

No one who writes these stories knows what is involved when an enlisted person makes a “request” of this level of importance. But I’m glad that there is nominally a pathway now. But I can’t wait to see the amount of hoop jumping that will be required for an E5 or below to have this request approved.


13 posted on 11/24/2016 9:55:53 AM PST by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: Bryanw92

They are already denying officers.


14 posted on 11/24/2016 9:58:40 AM PST by marktwain
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To: umgud

You dishonor and offend all good, functioning, reliable assholes when you compare them to Barky Obama, or him to them. Several times per 24 hour cycle I have occasion to appreciate mine. Is there something else to call him? Lying bastard comes to mind.


15 posted on 11/24/2016 9:58:44 AM PST by Tucker39 (Welcome to America! Now speak English; and keep to the right....In driving, in theolog and politics.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

No one wants to have a problem before DJT would have signed an EO on Jan 20.


16 posted on 11/24/2016 10:10:18 AM PST by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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To: Bringbackthedraft
This Directive?

DOD Directive 5210.56 Arming And The Use Of Force http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives/corres/pdf/521056_dodd_2016.pdf

17 posted on 11/24/2016 10:36:16 AM PST by TaxPayer2000
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hoop jumping?

Reminds me of the hoops I was required to go though to request permission to buy a motorcycle, and to get married, even as an E-5. If I hadn't just turned 21, I'd even have to get a permission slip from mom & dad. As it was the Commander still send them a letter advising them how dangerous a motorcycle was.

However, Enlisting for four years at age 18, and volunteering for Vietnam was no problem, for those I was an adult.

18 posted on 11/24/2016 10:37:44 AM PST by ASA Vet (Make US Intelligence great again!)
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>>Reminds me of the hoops I was required to go though to request permission

I remember those hoops too well. The civilian clothes chit (required counseling to learn how to properly wear civvies), the beard chit (required a checkup at 2 weeks to evaluate whether the beard was good enough), the marriage chit, the motorcycle chit, the dangerous sports chit (for rugby), etc.


19 posted on 11/24/2016 10:48:33 AM PST by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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Obummer will likely stop this until Jan 20. (asshole)

I would carry anyway! F**K Obama!!!

20 posted on 11/24/2016 10:53:59 AM PST by painter ( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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