Posted on 11/18/2009 2:34:16 PM PST by neverdem
It’s a damned crying shame when in the name of PC, even our military are rendered helpless cringing sheep in a slaughterhouse.
That is bit of hyperbole. It's not that hard to get on an Army post. Air Force bases are harder, and have been for decades.
During Desert Shield, I took a wrong turn in Junction City Kansas and ended up at some unit's motor pool on a nearly deserted Ft. Riley. I'm told that I could have done the same thing on Ft. Hood at the time, by a coworker whose husband was the senior NCO of the MPs here at the time.
Only after 9-11 did most Army posts become "closed", with gates and gate guards, base registration and ID required. (or easily obtainable one day pass, longer for those with military IDs).
No. The National Firearms Act was passed in 1934. You could not own so much as a short barrelled shotgun, withou paying a tax and registering it. A tax was several times the worth of the gun. Same with machine guns.
Semi-automatic 20mm cannon, those you could own. :) (An advertisment from the 1950s
The idea of having additional assigned and identified soldiers carrying openly is a good idea, though. More attacks are probably being planned as we speak, probably by more numerous and trained fanatics. The little test by Hasan showed how easily this can be done. Expect the bad guys to pick up the ball and run with it.
How would Ft Hood (or any base) have fared withh 20-30 trained killers armed with AKs and RPGs on the loose and with a plan, instead of one poorly trained one with hardly a plan? Does anybody else realize the speed and ease of penetrating the single fenced, sporadically patrolled perimeters most bases have for security? It shouldn't be hard at all to increase the readily available, trained fire power and do it cheaply.
I don't expect it to happen. After all, that would be "jumping to conclusions" about a lone nut-case, right?
I knew that. I forgot to add the restrictions of machine guns, short barreled rifles, sawed off shotguns and a few other types of firearms.
But the Solothurn was a semi-auto and did not require any type of registration until 1968 and then it had to be registered as a destructive device.
What political agenda do you allude to? Did you read the article?
“Issue weapons to all? Negatron. “
It wasn’t THAT many decades ago that this was exactly what happened in garrison. What happened to the Army?
Back in the old days, when soldiers slept in squad bay wood barracks, their rifles were kept in racks at the ready.
On Fort Jackson where I work, the trainees are issued their individual weapons and eat/sleep/train with them and do not turn them back to the arms room until they graduate.
Discharge barrels and amnesty boxes are everywhere. Not like it once was, but similar. Ammo, however, is under unbelievably tight control.
“Ammo, however, is under unbelievably tight control.”
Back in the real old days (SpanAm War), even ammunition wasn’t under such tight control. Where I work, only a handful of MilPo and contractor security are armed. Maybe they should stop calling them “Forts”....
Oops...my bad...I just skimmed it...sorry.
Thanks for the ping!
I never knew of a firearms policy other than nothing in the barracks. Guns were in the cars. (Guns were in the barracks as well but nobody really cared).
There was a guy from west Tennessee that cleaned game in his dorm room. The squuadron commander could care less as long as it was clean.
What? You can’t hunt them on military posts?
There’s an idea....
; )
Many, many years ago some relatives from Minnesota came to Wyoming for an antelope (pronghorn) hunt with my dad and uncles. The visitors were to use "borrowed" rifles as we more than enough to go around. One of my uncles had one of these rounds, or one very similar, and placed it on the table beside the rifle and told them that is what they were using for the hunt. Lots of laughs all around. The cartridge base was bigger than the receiver of the rifle it was beside.
Did you or anyone you know ever get one of the BB machine guns you could order in Boy's Life? I always wanted one, but had to do with my Red Ryder.
Oh, for the good old days to return!
IIRC, the deck guards on the USS Cole had no ammunition.
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