Gun ban on Military Establishments

DirtyDawg

What do y'all say? Who enacted the ban that prevents the people that we have entrusted to defend the Constitution, from carrying firearms??

I say it's Bush Sr.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09/17/this-is-why-most-military-personnel-are-disarmed-on-military-bases-and-its-not-clintons-fault/

And the directive that happened in 1992:

http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a272176.pdf

Neo-con Bush Senior gets the credit in my books

Doc

AR Gov ordered the commander of the National Guard to arm soldiers on military property today.

select-fire

Been armed in SC at least at the entry gates.

cce1302

I don't care who it was. All the statists are the same, but the democrepublicans keep telling us if we vote for the other side, it will be different.

grumpygy

I joined in 74 and it was that way then. You carried but only if nobody found out.

So the Bush Argument is out.

cranky2

I was drafted in Oct. 72. Only MPs carried, all guns were locked in the arms room.

Ambrose

Part of the Dec. 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor story is that the GI's had to break into the arms lockers before they could shoot back. I believe that included the big stuff, too.

laylandad

quote:Originally posted by Ambrose
Part of the Dec. 7, 1941 Pearl Harbor story is that the GI's had to break into the arms lockers before they could shoot back. I believe that included the big stuff, too.


The same would happen now if an installation was attacked! The only ones carrying weapons now are MP's, gate sentries, and DOD civilian police.

To answer the OP:

It was like that from 2000-2004! If you lived in base housing, any privately owned weapon was checked into the arms room or Armory upon check in. You could "draw" your weapon out to use, but it had to go back when you returned to your quarters.