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Cjwglock19 wrote:

VMI77 wrote:

Cjwglock19 wrote:General got asked several questions about soldiers carrying concealed. Seems they have to sign weapon in and out of armory. Took 10-15 minutes for MPs to get to scene and engage. Just makes you wonder...
I pass Ft Hood everyday going to work, prayers for all involved and their families.

To clarify, are you talking about a general procedure for obtaining a weapon, or are you saying the MP's had to go to the armory and sign out a weapon in order to respond to the shooter?

As I understand it, I will use my father inlaw as an example. He is retired army, if he goes aboard post, he must "check-in" his weapon as a chl holder to retrieve as he leaves ( he drops it off at my house usually)My understanding is that if a chl holder lives aboard post, he must go through the process as well. I used the word "seems" as I am not 100% sure! hoped someone could clarify. So I am talking about the soldier policy for concealed weapons. As I assumed, that has been a headline in the news today.

Once again a gun free zone and the shooter turns gun on himself when challenged by armed authority.

Ok, I thought they weren't even allowed as a CHL to bring a weapon on base. When I was in the military at a temporary duty post and living on base, I had to check my guns in with the MP's at the gate....I don't mean a single handgun, but several rifles, shotguns, and handguns. It was pretty routine back then, and not that big of a deal. Then again, sentries, ridiculously, carried a .45 with an empty mag inserted, and so had to eject the empty, put in a loaded mag, and operate the slide --so some of this stupidity has been around for a long time. In college we had to check our personal arms into the armory but each of us had an M14 assigned to us and kept in a rifle rack in our rooms.

Cjwglock19 wrote:General got asked several questions about soldiers carrying concealed. Seems they have to sign weapon in and out of armory. Took 10-15 minutes for MPs to get to scene and engage. Just makes you wonder...
I pass Ft Hood everyday going to work, prayers for all involved and their families.

To clarify, are you talking about a general procedure for obtaining a weapon, or are you saying the MP's had to go to the armory and sign out a weapon in order to respond to the shooter?

They need to put up some no nonsense no gun signs and make scissors more readily available. Apparently there either weren't enough signs, the signs weren't clear enough, and/or a shortage of readily available scissors. There's nothing else that can be done. Surely no sane person can advocate trusting military personnel to carry weapons on a military base. That would be dangerous, plus, their uniforms aren't the right color.