Navy Times by Geoff Ziezulewicz 2/7/2020
Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly released new guidance late last week that will prohibit foreign military students training in the United States from owning personal firearms.
The policy change comes after Royal Saudi Air Force Lt. Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani opened fired at Naval Air Station Pensacola on Dec. 6, killing three sailors and wounding eight other people.
Investigators later found that he had espoused anti-American rhetoric and bought the murder weapon legally in Florida through a hunting license loophole.
While Pentagon leaders previously had announced that international military students would face new firearms restrictions, Modly’s Jan. 31 order offers more information about how the sea service will bar the possession and use of the weapons.
International military students and accompanying family members who are admitted into the United States under a Pentagon-sponsored visa or on invitational travel orders will be prohibited from possessing, using, transporting or storing privately owned firearms and ammunition on Navy installations or property, “regardless of their country of origin,†Modly’s message states.
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