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i saw last night on our local news the saudi terrorist had purchased the fiream legally. this caught me, as he is a foreign national(FN), how is he eligible to pass a ncic check? or did i miss something.
Secondly Saudi Arabia prohibits its citizens in the U.S. for training from owning, using or other wise being around firearms unless in a due course of training. of course we know how the saudis really feel and for the life of me, do not understand why we kiss their rear.

I say this because i was an instructor at pcola for 4 years. we had numerous FN's attending my school house as well as others. at any one time there were at least 100 FN's on base in various school houses.
I will also go on the rant to say every FN i had in my school was a real pain in the rear. they expected special treatment and more often than not failed to complete curriculum objectives and we would often be ordered to pass them as they were not part of our military and the home government would handle the poor performance. We also DROPPED many FN students for failures after we accumulated enough evidence to sway the chain of command and they would be sent home promptly. usually this overwhelming evidence was of actions outside of the school house. ( drinking, fighting, etc)

the Saudi government was at the time very strict and would often send over delegates to spot check performance of students . of course the students would be perfect and follow all the rules until they left.
the FN students were from many countries, but the students i had from Turkey and Saudia Arabia were by far the most arrogant and hap hazard people i have ever had the opportunity to train..
i laugh at saudi pilot training as saudis will do everything imaginable to not fly at night, unless very sever situations dictate. flight school is almost the only time they will fly at night.

At the schoolhouse there are no weapons, unless we are at the range.

only people on base armed are the security forces tasked with protecting the base and its occupants. how did he pass through security with a firearm? EASY. morning rush hour, its easy as driving through the gate showing your id card.
hmm every body does it, only the few ever get caught, unless 100% vehicle inspections are held. this is a Huge manpower and time burner and is not done very often. I was there during 9/11 and we did the 100% check for weeks. It was stopped because traffic backups, lack of production and continued training interruptions.

my main building in which my school was located switched to only one point of entry and exit and all other doors were reset to alarm if opened and only opened from inside. a metal detector was used and people looked at. but i was a senior person with keys and had free reign to come and do from any door by means of a simple phone call to the security desk. WAS this right? nope. but i exploited it because i despised walking 3/4 mile to get to my office through the main entrance.
but i never carried in the school. but lots of us were carrying in our vehicles in the parking lots. more so after 9/11.

we should have armed security at the school houses 24/7 i raised this concern weekly. or we arm the school house staff.
i had a high of 600 students to look after everyday with only 80 staff. we had at any time 2500 to 3500 students and staff in the main building at any time. thats alot of people to look after.