Nothing new. That's been the case since before I joined the Army in 1976, and storing them in the arms room applied only to soldiers living in barracks. Soldiers living in post housing could retain their own personal firearms in their quarters.
...that includes soldier who live off base, they are no permitted by new post regulations to have their personally owned guns in their off post housing, including the homes they own.
...and just how exactly is that going to be enforced?
Do you have a copy of the current Ft Hood reg that states soldiers can't own and maintain personal firearms while residing off post? I'd like to read it.
I could have sworn that some bases tried to pull this regulation, and then Congress quashed it in the authorization act of..2011? Specifically forbade the regulation of private firearms off of base.
The regulation is what I read about being published after Hasan’s terrorist attack. I don’t have a copy, but there is probably a copy on line somewhere.
I was at Ft. Hood 78-80 and I could keep my personal rifle in my apartment off post and in my quarters on post. But that was back then, when there was the traditional attitude toward gun ownership and not today’s ‘guns are bad, only the government should have them’ belief.
Enforcement: up to soldiers to obey regulations. Other than that, there is such a thing of ‘health and welfare’ inspections that a commander can still do of soldier’s post housing and off post quarters.
Ed-in the Army you are a under military regulations 24 hours a day, thus this type of order can be legally written by the post commander.
This isn’t the Army we were in in the 70s.