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Soldiers Forced to Disclose Personal Fireams Data

by BMCWrites | April 25, 2009 at 06:31 am

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In a post yesterday, Mitchell Langbert offers an insightful look at how U.S. Army soldiers are being required to disclose to their superiors all information about their firearms — personally-owned firearms. Best of all, the look comes straight from an infantryman at Fort Campbell, Ky., and even includes a copy of a memo outlining what soldiers at that post must do.

Yes, it seems Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano’s beliefs about military folks being prone to right-wing extremism have spread to the Pentagon and beyond.

This news makes me wonder what other information service members soon might be forced to reveal. Perhaps they’ll be required to answer this yes-or-no question:

“Are you loyal to Dear Leader Obama?”

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Karl Gotthardt - albertacowpoke

at 06:49 on April 25th, 2009

Thanks for this post. We had a similar rule in the Canadian Army. It only applied to firearms on Post though. Eventually we had to keep the firearms on Base with the Supply Sergeant.

We now have a firearm registration in Canada which is all screwed up. We call it the Billion Dollar boondoggle. Responsible firearms owners (hunters, farmers, collectors) are not the problem. It is all the illegal guns being smuggled into the country. Even criminals can't be dumb enough to commit a crime with a registered weapon.