Registration
In Fort Campbell, The US Army wants to register any soldier’s privately owned weapons. They also want to know if you have a carry permit.
7 Responses to “Registration”
Remember, I do this to entertain me, not you.
Uncle Pays the Bills
 |
|
Find Local
|
Categories
- ATF (769)
- Death Match (10)
- Eminent Domain (225)
- In the bag (9)
- Notes to Junior (546)
- Poker (74)
- Recipes (142)
- Shotgun Noob (11)
- The Airing of Grievances (19)
- uncategorized (47,725)
April 8th, 2009 at 9:58 am
They’ve always required registration for on-base storage or use, but this is the first time I’ve seen something like this.
That’s a company level memo, so I wouldn’t go so far as too say the Army is requiring it….
April 8th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Huh. If the officer(s) who put this “company-level memo” out thinks the troops can’t be trusted with weapons, than doesn’t the memo consitute an admission of incompetence and a failure of command of all officers involved? Command takes responsibility, after all…
Sounds like a relief for cause waiting to happen.
And if soldiers can’t be trusted with weapons in the first place, then WTF are they doing in the military in the first place?
April 8th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
In the Marines, we weren’t allowed to have our guns in the barracks, period. If we had guns on base, we were required to get permission from our CO and store them in the Armory. We were only allowed to check them out with permission from our CO, so if you wanted to go shooting on the weekend, you’d better get him to sign off on it first.
That’s why I, and everyone else I knew stored our guns in our cars, which are only searched by MPs when you get pulled over for speeding or driving recklessly, or in our barrack rooms, which was verbotten. If you hear about a health and comfort inspection, you either put it in your car, or run into your room when no one was looking and tuck it in your pants. They never search your person, your room, and your car a the same time.
April 8th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
If you want guns just join the Army….
April 8th, 2009 at 2:59 pm
This is my rifle, this is my gun, one is for shooting and one is for fun…..nuf said
April 8th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
One of several excuses offered by the local command after this memo was challenged was that it was to enable additional safety training for soldiers with privately owned weapons.
I would accept the command’s offer of additional “safety training” only if it included all the free “training” ammunition and cleaning supplies I could use on the base range with my private weapons in my off-duty hours. Soldiers have quite a few off duty hours and the Army has quite a bit of ammo and lotsa cleaning supplies.
April 8th, 2009 at 9:14 pm
From what I’ve learned after nine years at the installation I work at, on-post firearm policies seem to be more about the commanding officer’s opinion than anything else. We had one CO that wanted them registered with emergency services but stored in the home, and two that were/are “comply with state law”.
YMMV.