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Originally Posted by Angry Mike
I wonder if this has been brought to the attention of the General Counsel at OSD?
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Since the garrison commander has his own little legal team, they should have sent something like this up the legal chain for a higher level opinion before it was enacted. When you couple the old adage that you can always “add” to a regulation, you just can’t take away from it; with a zero deficit mentality, you get motorcycle riders with bubble-wrap riding suits, battery operated road guard vests, and strobe lights on their helmets. MHO is that there are many garrison bubbas that only care about not having anything major happen on their watch, and as a result enact draconian policies to try to prevent everything bad from happening.
Gun registration for Soldiers that live off-post makes no sense. None. How is it value-added, what is it going to prevent, and what the heck is the purpose? Only thing I come up with that even remotely makes sense is to be able to show…if something happened…that the command did
something. There are a couple of things the Army makes so ridiculously hard to do, that I just throw my hands up and say F-it. Riding my bike on post and going to the on-post range are two.