It's Past Time for Concealed Carry on Base

[rangerrebew]

It's Past Time for Concealed Carry on Base
By Commander C. Randolph Whipps, U.S. Navy Reserve
December 2019


In the November 2017 Proceedings, I suggested the Secretary of the Navy implement Section 4 provisions of Department of Defense Directive (DoDD) 5210.56, “Arming and the Use of Force.”  Those provisions allow for “carrying of privately owned firearms on DoD property by DoD personnel for personal protection purposes that are not associated with the performance of official duties.” Secretary of the Navy Instruction (SecNavInst) 5500.37 was released in May 2019, but as evidenced by the recent insider-threat terrorist attack at Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola, the Navy’s response can be characterized as “too little, too late.”

Why did it take the Department of the Navy (DoN) two and a half years to translate a November 2016 DoD directive into department-level policy? Yes, the DoN had to add specific references to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and maritime-specific use of force criteria, but the delay smacks of bureaucratic inertia at best, and deliberate slow-rolling at worst.

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2019/december/its-past-time-concealed-carry-base

[sneakypete]

This isn't done for one reason. The brass are afraid of the men in their commands.

Which says more about them than it does the men they command.