Hi All,
You may remember a previous thread about how a directive had come down Air Force channels about registering POW (Privately Owned Weapons) on base with the security police forces. It has now been implemented, months later, with a twist not mentioned earlier.
First let me say, I live in South Dakota and the AFB in question is Ellsworth AFB. South Dakota does not require you to register your firearms. Pistol, shotgun, rifle, whatever. You buy it, it's yours. Boom. Done. CCW is like license plates, but alot cheaper.
Ellsworth SPS (Security Police Squadron) issued a form to be filled out. It wants TYPE, MAKE and SERIAL NUMBER. So my AR-15 would read RIFLE, COLT, CCHXXXect. The "Routine Uses" line of the form reads as follow, and is my major problem....
To maintain accountability of firearms, record when firearms are removed and returned to the facility (they mean police storage for barracks guys) and determine the numbers and location of privately owned firearms on an installation. Routine use could include DISCLOSURE TO OTHER INVESTIGATORY AUTHORITIES, SSN USED FOR IDENTIFICATION AND RETRIEVING OF FILES.
What they are saying is that they intend to post the information to any law enforcement/government agency that wants the information.
South Dakota does not require registration. They say the primary purpose of collecting the information is so that SPS personnel responding to calls (burglary, domestic abuse, ect,ect) will have foreknowledge of firearms at the residence. That is a bald faced lie. Why would they need your serial number to know you have a shotgun in the house? Knowing the TYPE (rifle,shotgun) and MODEL (Match Target, Persuader,ect) seems much more impoprtant than the serial number, but they only want the type, make and serial number.
I suspect one of two things.
1. Anti's in the Clinton administration have succeeded in bullying the soccor-mom soldiers we have running the pentagon. Anything they can do to hurt gun rights is a victory for them, so they ram this down the pentagons windpipe 'cause they can.
2. Our military leadership is not the friend of America we thought it was, and it has it's own control agenda.
Once or both of these may be right. I don't know at this point, except that their actions defy logical explanation. A serial number will not protect a 18 year old security policemans' life. No matter what you think, tell me what it is. Thanks.
Ozzie223 from Ellsworth AFB.
You may remember a previous thread about how a directive had come down Air Force channels about registering POW (Privately Owned Weapons) on base with the security police forces. It has now been implemented, months later, with a twist not mentioned earlier.
First let me say, I live in South Dakota and the AFB in question is Ellsworth AFB. South Dakota does not require you to register your firearms. Pistol, shotgun, rifle, whatever. You buy it, it's yours. Boom. Done. CCW is like license plates, but alot cheaper.
Ellsworth SPS (Security Police Squadron) issued a form to be filled out. It wants TYPE, MAKE and SERIAL NUMBER. So my AR-15 would read RIFLE, COLT, CCHXXXect. The "Routine Uses" line of the form reads as follow, and is my major problem....
To maintain accountability of firearms, record when firearms are removed and returned to the facility (they mean police storage for barracks guys) and determine the numbers and location of privately owned firearms on an installation. Routine use could include DISCLOSURE TO OTHER INVESTIGATORY AUTHORITIES, SSN USED FOR IDENTIFICATION AND RETRIEVING OF FILES.
What they are saying is that they intend to post the information to any law enforcement/government agency that wants the information.
South Dakota does not require registration. They say the primary purpose of collecting the information is so that SPS personnel responding to calls (burglary, domestic abuse, ect,ect) will have foreknowledge of firearms at the residence. That is a bald faced lie. Why would they need your serial number to know you have a shotgun in the house? Knowing the TYPE (rifle,shotgun) and MODEL (Match Target, Persuader,ect) seems much more impoprtant than the serial number, but they only want the type, make and serial number.
I suspect one of two things.
1. Anti's in the Clinton administration have succeeded in bullying the soccor-mom soldiers we have running the pentagon. Anything they can do to hurt gun rights is a victory for them, so they ram this down the pentagons windpipe 'cause they can.
2. Our military leadership is not the friend of America we thought it was, and it has it's own control agenda.
Once or both of these may be right. I don't know at this point, except that their actions defy logical explanation. A serial number will not protect a 18 year old security policemans' life. No matter what you think, tell me what it is. Thanks.
Ozzie223 from Ellsworth AFB.