Posted on 06/16/2015 8:16:30 AM PDT by Clint N. Suhks
President Ronald Reagan carried a handgun with him at all times during his years in office, author Brad Meltzer writes in the New York Daily News.
Meltzer says he was doing research for his latest thriller "The President's Shadow," and wanted to talk to Secret Service agents about how the president lives.
At Secret Service headquarters he was taken to a small museum area where he saw such items as a newspaper marking John F. Kennedy's assassination and the actual door from the limousine Reagan was getting into when he was shot by John Hinckley Jr.
"It was an eerie keepsake for sure," Meltzer writes. "But not nearly as eerie as the next detail they told me. We were talking about Reagan and that day he was shot. Then one of the agents offered this secret: When Reagan was president, he carried his own gun."
Reagan carried the .38-caliber in his briefcase, and even took it onto Air Force One, Meltzer was told.
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Next they’ll be telling us he carried a Bible!
And had a Relationship with God!
There’s no magazine in that AR-15, and we can assume the scoped rifle wasn’t loaded.
However both show that Reagan had pretty poor trigger discipline.
AMEN! My hero.
ping
In the future it will come out that Obama carried a Barbie doll.
the gipper shot left handed?
Taught? Me too. With a ruler across the back of my left hand when I tried to use it. Shooting requires the dominate eye so I shoot a rifle left-handed but shoot a pistol right-handed but bring it across to my left eye. The teacher didn't follow me to the playground so I also throw left-handed.
“I’m surprised it took this long to to come out.”
I’m almost certain that Peggy Noonan mentioned this in her book.
Reagan spent 5 years in the cavalry, he would have carried a weapon with that horse and uniform.
yes taught is just a nice wording, some notations on Reagan freely state that he forced to be right handed because being left handed was considered a handicap. By the way I am right handed but shoot rifle left handed because I am cross dominant.
He wrote and threw baseballs and footballs with his right hand, but shot left handed. I had forgotten all about it until I saw the pictures on this thread.
“But not nearly as eerie as the next detail they told me. We were talking about Reagan and that day he was shot. Then one of the agents offered this secret: When Reagan was president, he carried his own gun.”
If carrying a gun is eerie, Meltzer is a weenie.
There, I said it.
Anyone with a clue thinks “Hmmm, not unreasonable.” And Reagan was enough of a man that he could probably have hit with it at range.
Even when I went into the service they wanted us initially to do bayonet training right-handed. There were some guys that really struggled so they relented and allowed both. Since I could go either way and the Sergeants loved keeping us holding the 9.2 lb. rifle out in the tiring thrust position, I alternated.
Nonsense.
He carries a "Ken" doll ...
Funny story, back when I was in junior high there was a thing called the California Cadet Corps and believe it or not we fired .22’s into bullet traps on the tennis court. They tried to make me fire right handed, even brought me over to the target to show me how well I did hitting the small sighting target. That all ended when I told the officer I had been aiming at the large center bullseye, they let me shoot left handed after that.
Hey mister dumb guy Metzger. SO WHAT!
Hey mister dumb guy Meltzer. SO WHAT!
I'm a member of the left/right club. Forced to use the right hand for writing, I throw and bat with the right also but shoot left handed and kick left footed. After awhile I noticed that using a racket right handed I favor the backhand because my left eye is dominant. All screwed up on the left/right thingy, except for politics. :D
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