Fort Hood. Chattanooga. Little Rock. Chantilly. Woodbridge. All were scenes of terror attacks. All were U.S. military installations where rank and file personnel were not allowed to carry weapons. And all were, save for military police, gun-free-zones.
Now, military brass have changed the rules to give people who work on Department of Defense installations, including recruiting stations, a fighting chance if a gunman targets them.
The effort to change the rules came after Islamic terrorist Major Nidal Hassan, a radicalized Muslim and Army psychiatrist, shot up a health center at Ford Hood, Texas.
Before an armed military police officer showed up to stop him, 13 military personnel were dead and another 30 were wounded. When the 2015 Chattanooga, Tennessee, terror attack occurred, the matter became even more urgent. Four marines and one sailor were killed in that Islamic terrorist attack:
The Military Times reports commanders always had the power to grant recruiters the ability to conceal carry, but that the military has “clarified” rules now allowing military recruiters and personnel on military installations to carry their own personal hand guns:
Now, military brass have changed the rules to give people who work on Department of Defense installations, including recruiting stations, a fighting chance if a gunman targets them.
The effort to change the rules came after Islamic terrorist Major Nidal Hassan, a radicalized Muslim and Army psychiatrist, shot up a health center at Ford Hood, Texas.
Before an armed military police officer showed up to stop him, 13 military personnel were dead and another 30 were wounded. When the 2015 Chattanooga, Tennessee, terror attack occurred, the matter became even more urgent. Four marines and one sailor were killed in that Islamic terrorist attack:
The Military Times reports commanders always had the power to grant recruiters the ability to conceal carry, but that the military has “clarified” rules now allowing military recruiters and personnel on military installations to carry their own personal hand guns:
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