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Originally posted by hberttmank:
So 17 guns is all it takes to have an arsenal? These idiots in the media would have a meltdown if they looked in the safes of sigforum members.

Or dredged the bottom of lakes.....

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Originally posted by Kevbo:
Truth...but it might be fun to have an auto sear for my Glock for a little while

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Originally posted by H&K-Guy:
There is nothing illegal with owning 17 firearms. Many collectors here have more.

Illegal silencers? An affinity with psychos? Bomb making instructions? SBR parts?

That is just stupid. If you can't follow the law, you don't deserve this hobby.

H&K-Guy

I have 3 guns with auto sears--all papered and fully legal. (And already known to the po-po so I can say so here.) And they are fun!

flashguy

17? No one NEEDS that many guns. No one NEEDS any guns.

Our government will protect us.

Can I have a roll of toilet paper now?

That is no aresenal, but he is a cracked pot.

Notice “ who questioned Justice and searched his residence on the base.”

There are a host of regulations Justice violated. Any personal weapon must be registered, then locked in an arms room. The last pistol I bought on post involved all the normal checks and then they started recording the information for post database. Then was a brief on driving around post with a pistol, where the range was, identification required to come onto post, etc. After all that, the staff carried the gun to my car, pointed out the direct route off post and told me to leave.
Were I living on post my commander would have a say.
So Justice is in trouble.

Things have obviously changed WRT firearms on-post over the years.

I purchased a revolver back in the early '80 at the Fort Richardson PX; I simply took it home to my on-post quarters.

During my 5-month TDY to Fort Belvoir back in the early '90s, I brought my Beretta with me and with the gun's SN just filled out a form at the MP HQ. Back then, Fort Belvoir had an indoor shooting range. From what I can tell now, it has turned into part of the commissary parking lot. Sad.

Soldiers living in the barracks had their personal firearms stored in the unit arms room. They had to make arrangements with the armorer to check it out and back in.

I lived off-base at the time I bought my Ruger Single Six Convertible back in '72 or '73. Took it on base to shoot at the base's indoor range. I don't recall having to go through any special procedures to do so. I just brought it, shot it, and left with it.

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Originally posted by ensigmatic:
I lived off-base at the time I bought my Ruger Single Six Convertible back in '72 or '73. Took it on base to shoot at the base's indoor range. I don't recall having to go through any special procedures to do so. I just brought it, shot it, and left with it.

That's how it was at Scott AFB, Illinois back in the 1970s, too. I lived off base and just drove onto the base (with my gun in the car) to shoot at the range there--nothing special at the gate.

flashguy