re: #117 Jay C

Ummm, ol’ Tommy IS aware that they are called the “armed services” for a reason, right??

Tommy is also deliberately unaware that when we give guns to these new recruits, it’s accompanied with considerable training. The weapons are kept in the armory, have to be signed out to go to the range, ammo also has to be signed out and you’re expected to bring back as many empty casings as the bullets you checked out. You don’t get to take the weapon home with you, keep it under your bed, carry it around on base.

Other than the MPs, soldiers at a stateside base can only have guns when they’re at the range, or on the way to or from. When you see pictures of uniformed soldiers with weapons on their person, those photos were taken overseas in a combat zone.