When I was in the Fleet, one of my CO's was an avid shotgunner...We, on serveral occasions would shoot clays off the fantail with our own, personal shotguns that were kept in the armory while on deployment...We had competitions and everything, plenty of shot shells to wile away some of the off time on some of those long transits...SherwoodForest wrote:Throughout Mark's military career -including NASA- he could not have carried a concealed handgun - so the concept of being personally armed for self defense -at least up until his wife's shooting - was not a viable option.
Active duty personnel are also conditioned to accept strict regulation of firearms on military facilites- so he never really had a chance to exercise the 2A right until he retired. That's why IMO he bought the 1911, and the AR-15 recently.
The military aparently learned nothing from the Ft. Hood mass shooting since state-side bases are essentially GFZ's.
The high command of any military/militia force might well impose certain rules/regulations regarding stand down policy for condition of arms, but that has nothing to do with the 2A protection of the people's right to keep & bear arms not subject to military regulations.
The people as a whole are not active duty military, and therefore not subject to Mark's military model for the 2A.
I think it had to do mostly with the attitude of the boss at the time...We never abused the trust, and the time we all spent doing something like that helped out tremendously with moral and teamwork...
That CO, later became the Superintendent of the Naval Academy in Annapolis...Rodney P. Rempt...I'd go to war with that guy anyday!!!