“Fort Stewart Shootings Recall Forgotten Trump Commitment,” this correspondent wrote last week in Firearms News. “President Trump promised to allow weapons carry (and later CCW) by military personnel on bases way back in 2015.”
The column noted those shootings were but the most recent, recounting prior incidents and summarizing current nonstandard policies regarding personal weapons “on DOD property by DOD personnel,” established in 2016 by Department of Defense Directive 5210.56, “Arming and the Use of Force.” It then recalled two separate pledges made by Donald Trump to “mandate that soldiers remain armed and on alert at our military bases.”
In 2015, candidate Trump promised that to AmmoLand Editor Fredy Riehl. He reiterated that commitment as a first-term president in 2018, as reported by Military.com in its “Trump Pushes to Allow Troops to Carry Personal Weapons on Bases” report. Yet for whatever reason, the only comment he’s made after the Fort Stewart shootings as a second-term president has been to promise that the shooter will be “prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
Meanwhile, the situation and the risks for those we thank for their service, all of whom have been subject to more scrutiny than civilian background checks, remain. To remind him of his earlier pledge, the president was notified via both X.com and his own Truth Social platform. Still, one lone voice is easy to miss or ignore, so major “gun rights” groups were nudged to “call on their members to urge the president to act.”
If such efforts have been made, they evidently haven’t been publicized. But there’s no reason that should stop individual gun owners who don’t need to be led from contacting the president on their own initiative. That’s what WarOnGuns Correspondent “CDT” has done in his “Open Letter to President Trump on Military Base Victim Disarmament.”
“There have been seven other spree shootings with this same profile since 2009, all made possible by President Clinton’s ban on soldiers carrying arms inside military bases,” CDT reminded the president. “There is no place in the USA for victim disarmament policies, but *especially* not on military bases.”
“As Commander in Chief, this is a pen-and-a-phone moment for you,” CDT asserted. “No rogue federal judge has the power to stop you. Do it this week, and take one more easy Win.”
“Fort Stewart army base shooting raises questions about military gun policies, the Associated Press reports.
Yeah? Who’s doing the asking? Any “gun groups”?
I once more encourage them – and readers who believe keeping his earlier promises is something President Trump ought to and can do, to remind him of that.
You can reach him several ways, via comments to username on X.com or Truth Social, or, if you don’t use “social media” (which I urge you to reconsider), you can send him a message via The White House contact page, and, of course, if you don’t mind a bit of Secret Service scrutiny to make sure the envelope is safe, via good old-fashioned snail mail, or by calling to leave a message.
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
