Apparently Secretary of War Hegseth has signed an order to allow Military members access to carry personal guns on base.
Secretary of War to allow Military to carry personal guns on base
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powerboatr
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would make going to the skeet and pistol ranges easier
we carry on board a certain place near San Antonio for years and years
never been an issue
we carry on board a certain place near San Antonio for years and years
never been an issue
The Night Rider
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From the article
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum directing military installation commanders to allow War Department personnel — namely, uniformed service members — to request to carry privately owned firearms while in their nonofficial duty capacity on DOW property within the United States.
"Before today, it was virtually impossible … for War Department personnel to get permission to carry and store their own personal weapons aligned with the state laws where we operate our installations.
And after today it will remain virtually impossible because there is not a Base Commander, Post Commander, Installation Commander or Unit Commander that's going to sign off on this.
When I was stationed at Fort Carson, immediately in the late 90s. A company Commander was relieved for cause because one of his soldiers without telling anybody drove home to wherever in Texas on a long weekend. On the way home Sunday night he fell asleep at the wheel somewhere in Oklahoma and crashed his car and died.
This is purely a gas but I'm assuming the Commander's chain of command told that he didn't do enough to prevent that. And I mean short of preemptively confining all the soldiers in his command to the barracks for the long weekend what could he have done?
My first Duty station, I had a friend who was an E6 that lived in the barracks. Her platoon sergeant found out that she owned a Buck Knife the horror and confiscated it from her
So what do you think would happen if some dumbass private shot himself in the *** with a gun that his Commander signed off on him carrying on post?
This sounds good but it's going nowhere and Pete Hegseth knows that it's not going anywhere but it's good Optics
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum directing military installation commanders to allow War Department personnel — namely, uniformed service members — to request to carry privately owned firearms while in their nonofficial duty capacity on DOW property within the United States.
"Before today, it was virtually impossible … for War Department personnel to get permission to carry and store their own personal weapons aligned with the state laws where we operate our installations.
And after today it will remain virtually impossible because there is not a Base Commander, Post Commander, Installation Commander or Unit Commander that's going to sign off on this.
When I was stationed at Fort Carson, immediately in the late 90s. A company Commander was relieved for cause because one of his soldiers without telling anybody drove home to wherever in Texas on a long weekend. On the way home Sunday night he fell asleep at the wheel somewhere in Oklahoma and crashed his car and died.
This is purely a gas but I'm assuming the Commander's chain of command told that he didn't do enough to prevent that. And I mean short of preemptively confining all the soldiers in his command to the barracks for the long weekend what could he have done?
My first Duty station, I had a friend who was an E6 that lived in the barracks. Her platoon sergeant found out that she owned a Buck Knife the horror and confiscated it from her
So what do you think would happen if some dumbass private shot himself in the *** with a gun that his Commander signed off on him carrying on post?
This sounds good but it's going nowhere and Pete Hegseth knows that it's not going anywhere but it's good Optics
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It sounds like they (the commanders) have a choice AND if they feel they want to impose ther will they better have a good rwason to justify it and that decision is above them.
All that said I hope it extends to civilian employees my son in law js a Hs 14 had a top secret clearance and works on high level aircraft programs and should be trusted to carry from hine to work and back. As all the retirees that visit bases for those well deserved benefits
Onewolf426
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The Fort Hood shooter could have been stopped sooner and permanently, had this been enacted.