[Mulder]

bang

[SAMWolf]

Can we just kick California out of the Union?

[Bogey78O]

My dad liked to carry whatever he could find back in Vietnam. One of his non-American favorites was a Type 59 pistol he got off a corpse. Although the auto nearly got him killed when he accidently engaged it he kept it till it was stolen out of the armory by an officer.

[patton]

Ok,I will go first.

Allow me to say that I have personally handled a NUKE.

God forbid I should handle an 11-round magazine.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Is there some way that these supplemental guns could be shipped out to our boys (and girls) in uniform. And why isn't the Pentagon supplying our military with decent guns anyhow? If these were official military issue, wouldn't the state law be moot?

[Procyon]

Gee. Maybe the 2nd Amendment really means what it says.

[Centurion2000]

Kalifornia just plain sucks ..... this is a state on socialism ... everyone please take note.

[Newbomb Turk]

I don't buy it. No military unit I have ever been in would allow a non gov issued firearm. I am not saying it can't happen but color me skeptical.
Sound off current service members and retirees. Am I just misinformed. Everyone caries knives and other little surprizes though.

[Britton J Wingfield]

I've thought long and hard about this. I'm afraid they'll stick me on a civilian airliner if I get deployed, preventing me from taking a backup piece. Maybe I can finagle a way to get it shipped with some of our heavy gear. I'd hate to end up in jail over something like that.

[Experiment 6-2-6]

Apparently we trust our military personnel to handle tanks, machine guns, missiles, grenades, mortars, howitzers, aircraft carriers, submarines, jets, bombs and nuclear weapons. And after making them wait a week-and-a-half, we even trust them enough to let them buy a handgun that holds ten rounds.

I seem to recall a rather lengthy waiting period for aircraft carriers and submarines...

That aside, I had the displeasure to serve next to some absolute morons who I sure as hell hope were NEVER entrusted with anything, much less those little toys. The presence of which we can neither confirm nor deny.

'course, I was a surface puke. We got the worst of the lot.

[Long Cut]

I'm starting to REALLY WONDER just why the police seem to have so many more privileges than the "average" person.

As far as the military goes, while I'd LIKE to have the ability to purchase whatever I want whenever or wherever, I also want the same for everyone else. Just because I'm Active Duty doesn't mean, to me, that I should have MORE rights than the average Joe.

That said, I'm fully qualified on pistols and shotguns, courtesy of Uncle Sam. Thus, here in Florida, i was exempt from the standard "safety course" required to get a CCW. Big Deal.

What I would LOVE to see is someone from Cali's joke of a government forced into giving a REASON for this policy. Be funny to watch them squirm.

[Eagle Eye]

Does anyone know which, if any, of the 'friendly' ME countries allow foreign civilian citizens to bring in privately owned firearms?

[USMC_tangocharlie]

Having lived in Kalifornia twice (29 Palms and El Toro), let me just say that the best things about that state are the things the state gooberment cannot control....i.e. Marine bases and the weather

[dpa5923]

Although law enforcement personnel are exempted from many of the restrictions on purchasing firearms, military personnel stationed in California are not. . .

Okay, I'll ask. Why are law enforcement personnel exempted from obeying laws they are suppose to enforce? Why are law enforcement personnel treated any different than any other law-abiding citizen? When did we become a monarchy with princes and dukes who can flaunt the law?

This is complete bull$h!t!

[Redbob]

So California's laws have inconvenienced yet another group that thinks it should be "above" all those guns laws that are intended to keep the sheeple in check?

Too effing bad!