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Information On Personal Firearms

Personal firearms won us the revolutionarymeet a certain minimum standard, they may not
war so I cant be completely against the idea.be as high quality or may even lack some good
features  found  on  more  expensive weapons.
I do think though that national guardsmen and
reservists should carry their own personalAnother advantage is that every soldier would
side arms and be forced to qualify with them.be carrying a weapon that fits him or her.
People's hands come in different sizes; it
The reserves tend to get stuff 2nd, 3rd orwould make sense to allow for a range of
4th hand, so encouraging them to purchasefirearms to be used, rather than the "one
personal firearms would at least mean thatsizes  fits  some"  mentality.
their weapons would be new as or newer than
the  ones  in  the  active  duty  inventory.It's not a matter of "looking cool," or just
"trying to be different." I think there are
It is hard to be proficient with the M9 whensome valid reasons why we should look into
only officers get to use them, and even thenallowing the use of personal firearms. When
it is only once a year that my unit goes toagencies buy guns, price is a huge factor
the range. Maybe it is because I am in abecause they have limited budgets, but when
hospital reserve unit, but that has been myindividuals buy guns, price is considerably
experience.less important. If you could get a gun of
much better quality, reliability or accuracy
It is just not practical to carry a M16 or M4for a few hundred dollars more, I think most
in a hospital while you are trying to seesensible people would want the most bang for
patients. But my unit does not have enoughtheir buck rather than what is the cheapest
M9s to issue to everyone. By having thegun they can carry. Why buy a used 38 special
opportunity to carry a personal sidearm Ipolice revolver for 300 bucks when you can
could ensure that I would always be armed andbuy a new hi-capacity Glock for not much
ready in case one of the "patients" turnedmore? Of course, knowing that common sense is
out  to  be  an  insurgent.not so common any more, any military
organization that allowed personal weapons
People tend to respect things more when theywould have to set up specific criteria and
own them. If the gun is yours, there is anhave the firearm inspected by the unit
attachment to that gun that you wont havearmorer to ensure that it meets those
with a "lowest bidder GI weapon." If thecriteria. No Saturday night specials in our
government's rifle is not clean, who cares,beloved  military!
right? Someone else will get stuck with it.
But if it is your gun that you paid for, youWeapon confidence and morale would be better
might be a little more diligent in cleaningas well. Everyone has a gun that they think
it right? I mean, since you would be theis inferior or one that is really great.
"lucky one" to use it in combat and youPeople tend to buy what they like best, so if
wouldnt want to have to buy another onethey were carrying a personal sidearm,
because  it  was  poorly  maintained.chances are they would be more willing to
practice with it and less likely to complain
No offense to GI weapons, but mil spec weaponabout it.
is made to be cheap. Though they are made to



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