Military to require registration of personal firearms (again)?

[alsaqr]

that is some dumb BS. Obama has better things to do.

Bingo!!!! The far outers want to blame any little thing that happens on Obama.

Gun control on US Army bases has been a fact of life well before Obama was even born. In 1959 I reported to my first unit at Ft. Bragg with privately owned guns. Those guns were kept in the unit arms room and i was issued a private weapons card. When a gun was checked out of the arms room my private weapons card was put on the weapons rack.

It is due to the fact that soldiers try to hide them in the barracks and have committed several irresponsible acts related to firearms.

Exactly. Military folks murder people about as often as the general US population. A few years ago a man was murdered on the highway about 150 yards from our home. Some sort of altercation had happened at a boob bar
a mile up the road. The man was run off the road or he pulled over, not sure which. The killer was an off duty Ft. Sill MP. Not sure what the guy was doing with his duty weapon when he was off duty.

In late 1997 a GI was murdered in the parking lot of that girly bar in a gang related killing. The gun was a .223/5.56mm. It may have been an M16 rifle.

 

[divemedic]

Bingo!!!! The far outers want to blame any little thing that happens on Obama.

Gun control on US Army bases has been a fact of life well before Obama was even born.

Only for weapons kept on post. I lived off base, and I was not required to register my personal weapons. I also owned a gun store while I was in the military, and my Lt tried to order me to close. I pointed out to him that his order was not a lawful one. The command backed me up on that one.

If they are regulating off base (post) weapons, then this is a new thing.

 

[billfrombyron]

Ft Campbell, Ky you have to register your firearms only if you live on base, or only if your going to hunt/shoot on base. For quarters personnel you have to register, for barracks personnel you have to store it in the arms room. If you lived off base, you were not required to register your weapon unless you wanted to, you wanted to use it at the pow range, or use it for hunting or bring it through the gate for whatever reason.

Whats new about this? Was that way my whole career in the Army.

Unless it changed since I got out in 2008.

-Bill