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William Lewis  May 2, 2016 • 7:23:08pm

Since the 1977 coup, the NBA has become the gun owners worst enemy.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  May 4, 2016 • 3:32:20pm

There were some really brazen gun thefts from army personnel back in the 90’s where people would drive up to a post were somebody was pulling gate guard or something and carrying an unloaded M16, point shotguns and tell the soldiers to drop the rifles.(I knew one of the soldiers it happened to at Ft Leonard Wood. Hillbillies made off with over 30 M16 rifles and an M60 machinegun in a van…and a couple of drill sergeant round browns) I know of another instance at a depot that was closing down in New Jersey where the gate guards were forcibly disarmed.

If you are carrying a damned weapon on guard, you should have live rounds.

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ThomasLite  May 4, 2016 • 6:28:45pm

re: #2 Aunty Entity Dragon

If you are carrying a damned weapon on guard, you should have live rounds.

On the one hand, fair enough; seems to me not having live ammo loaded beats the freaking point of carrying a weapon on guard duty in the first place. If whatever they’re carrying is there for aesthetic purposes give them a pair of pom-poms instead, much more pleasing on the eye and more honest about it’s actual function to boot.

Thing with guard duty, though: anyone not utterly incompetent who tries to pull something on you, *will* get the drop on you: you’re a sitting duck in a position where, inherently, people will calmly come up to you. You’re always going to be in the open, and last to realize shit is going down.
So realistically, unless you’re going to enforce a perimeter (and preferably a second line of defence with some more armed guards waiting in a more secure position), aren’t you always going to be disarmed in a situation like that? I mean, if the only armed response could come from the guys at the gate who *will* have to let people come up to them quite freely it would seem to me the only thing you’d accomplish by letting them carry a loaded firearm would be that instead of them getting disarmed, you’d see them getting shot.

Am I missing something here or is a single gate with armed guards simply not going to defend against a scenario like that?


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