Looks like military and dependents through the Air Force will soon face mandatory registraion of all firearms kept in their homes , regardless of ownership, if they live on base.
I'm not sure how I feel about this yet, but I intend to comply. I am a little suspicious though. After all these decades , 80 days before Y2K and they want a list of all privately owned weapons kept in homes on base. Here is the email sent by the SP Commander on the base I live at.
Fellow Commanders and First Sergeants,
Wanted to give you a heads up that the soon-to-be-published ACC Sup to AFI 31-209 will require all privately owned weapons on base to be registered. We became aware of this a few weeks ago when we reviewed the initial draft, but at that time it wasn't clear if that provision would make the final reg.
Now we've been told that the provision will be in the final reg.
Don't know the process and how it will work and my folks are working hard to determine what part of the process is going to be spelled-out in the reg and what part we'll have to develop locally. My SF staff and my orderly room will work to implement this with as little pain as possible. The end result of the registration process will be to allow my SF control center to know of the existence of weapons in base housing when necessary (i.e., responding to burgulary, domestic disturbance, etc.).
I think that the bulk of the work to get weapons registered in your units will fall on your orderly rooms. The reg could be on the streets as early as next week, but I'll fight to NOT have an unreasonable suspense associated with getting this done. Once we get the initial registration done, it should just be an inprocessing task.
In case you don't know, privately owned weapons are allowed to be storred in base housing, but not in troop housing. Storage locations aren't changing, only registration. My armory stores privately owned weapons for dormitory and billeting residents and provides courtesy storage for anyone else -- that also isn't changing.
Thanks, as always for your support.
Regards
(I blocked his name)
I'm not sure how I feel about this yet, but I intend to comply. I am a little suspicious though. After all these decades , 80 days before Y2K and they want a list of all privately owned weapons kept in homes on base. Here is the email sent by the SP Commander on the base I live at.
Fellow Commanders and First Sergeants,
Wanted to give you a heads up that the soon-to-be-published ACC Sup to AFI 31-209 will require all privately owned weapons on base to be registered. We became aware of this a few weeks ago when we reviewed the initial draft, but at that time it wasn't clear if that provision would make the final reg.
Now we've been told that the provision will be in the final reg.
Don't know the process and how it will work and my folks are working hard to determine what part of the process is going to be spelled-out in the reg and what part we'll have to develop locally. My SF staff and my orderly room will work to implement this with as little pain as possible. The end result of the registration process will be to allow my SF control center to know of the existence of weapons in base housing when necessary (i.e., responding to burgulary, domestic disturbance, etc.).
I think that the bulk of the work to get weapons registered in your units will fall on your orderly rooms. The reg could be on the streets as early as next week, but I'll fight to NOT have an unreasonable suspense associated with getting this done. Once we get the initial registration done, it should just be an inprocessing task.
In case you don't know, privately owned weapons are allowed to be storred in base housing, but not in troop housing. Storage locations aren't changing, only registration. My armory stores privately owned weapons for dormitory and billeting residents and provides courtesy storage for anyone else -- that also isn't changing.
Thanks, as always for your support.
Regards
(I blocked his name)