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Posted on 04/02/2026 4:12:36 PM PDT by deks
“Not all enemies are foreign, nor are they all outside our borders,” Hegseth said. “Some are domestic. Confirming your God-given right to self-protection is what I’m signing into action today.”
The Defense secretary cited the shootings at Fort Stewart Army Base, Holloman Air Force Base and Naval Air Station Pensacola, saying they indicate “that some threats are closer to home than we would like.”
“In these instances, minutes are a lifetime,” Hegseth said. “And our service members have the courage and training to make those precious, short minutes count.”
Hegseth said his memo directs installation commanders to permit requests from service members to carry personal firearms on base “for personal protection.”
The Defense Department had previously barred privately owned weapons on military instillations. This decision was grounded in the Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990, which set standards for the establishment of gun-free zones on federal properties.
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The Secretary of War made an announcement [video 2:36]
https://x.com/SecWar/status/2039803944965185634
If you can’t trust them to carry a personal firearm responsibly then they probably shouldn’t be in the military to begin with
Wonder if this will apply to retired vets. Hoping so.
Excellent!
This is a Good Thing.
Can’t remember the Major that went
Jihad with a 5.7 pistol years back.
He’s still locked up....IIRC
Was absurd to have at least two recent cases of an unhinged person who couldn’t be stopped from shooting on a base because no one was allowed to carry a weapon but the killer.
Held them up to ridicule for sounding like elementary school teachers hiding behind piles of desks with kids in a “No Gun Zone” school.
Way past time for this
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So as retired military, I read this as meaning I can submit a request to the local base commander and he should eventually allow me to carry while on base. Or give me a reason in writing for saying no. Might be a small step in the right direction. But I’m underwhelmed.
Not 100% sure if it applies to retirees. And I allowed my CCW license to expire after Arizona went Constitutional Carry.
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Good!
Hey Babs - what’s your GI experience?
You should quiet down before your stupidity/bias really shows your ignorance.
Yep, in the last four paragraphs of the article that I left out due to the rule to excerpt.
It’s about time! We can send 18 year olds to die in service to our country but they can’t carry a weapon on a military base. Absurd.
I keep mine valid still. There’s a guy in Utah with my exact same name that must’ve gotten in trouble or something because I would get a delay on my purchase. I also lived in Utah several times in my life to compound the issue I guess. Breeze right through with the cc permit.
That they were even denied “carry” is absurd.
Major Nidal Hasan.
I remember......
I believe your case would be the same as a veteran that is not a retiree. What makes both the veteran and retire the same is they are not on active duty.
I just checked with AI on that question and the answer was only active duty military members subject to military law can now apply to carry. All others cannot.
I checked with our local base a couple years ago, and the answer was a flat no.
“I just checked with AI on that question and the answer was only active duty military members subject to military law can now apply to carry. All others cannot.”
Thank you for researching it. I’m not surprised. The military doesn’t trust even people who had Top Secret clearances for most of their life to carry a Ruger LCP...so this reform really IS a very small step in the right direction.
One that does nothing for me.
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