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| I feel 100% CERTAIN our local Escambia County citizens and businesses will respect this DoD rule and report any suspicious purchase attempts by foreign military students locally as requested. |
Members of the Chamber of Commerce's Military Affairs Committee received the below email from NAS Pensacola Commanding Officer CAPT Timothy Kinsella this afternoon--relating to a new directive from the Department of Defense and a request of the citizens locally to assist. I spoke to CAPT Kinsella this afternoon and he reiterated his wish that this new policy be made known to citizens locally. From the email:
"Colleagues,
In the wake of the Dec 6th terrorist attack on board NAS Pensacola, the Department of Defense issued a change to policy whereby international military students are now prohibited from buying, owning or handling firearms within the United States. Each international student must now acknowledge that they are, regardless of other civil laws, prohibited from access to firearms.
While this policy is non-binding to commercial purveyors of firearms, I ask your assistance in educating our local gun-shops and retailers about the attached DOD policy so that they may assist us in preventing a foreign bad actor from gaining access to firearms. If nothing else, with their knowledge of such a policy I would hope that they would notify us of any foreign military student who attempted to buy a firearm from them.
Many thanks to each of you for your continued partnership, and please don’t hesitate to reach out if you have any questions or if I can be of any assistance.
Commanding Officer
Naval Air Station Pensacola"
3 comments:
Some will yet some will not. There are some absolute wacko's out there that actually believe if one wants to protect their own country and constitution and borders, they are being mean and use big words like "xenophobic" and "racist". The absolute stupidity and gullibility and thought processes of liberal lefties is absurd and I wish I could say laughable. Useful Idiots.
Some think they are invisible in their dangerous agenda to defy the POTUS and the Florida governor's authority.
BLM is already putting pressure on the OFFICE of president elect to abolish prisons. (There is no OFFICE of president elect.)
They live in a bubble of their own construction. They seem unaware of reality or either they are part of the revolution.
I hope they will. I am happy you are certain, If you spend some time looking on peoples' facebook and twitter comments, you would not be so certain.
It is truly sad and alarming that many will laugh at sweat and dye and not be intelligent enough to research and go straight to the CPUSA Communist Party or the World wide social web pages and look at their articles on the USA election for themselves. They are starting a Defend the vote to stop the so called Trump coup. When what they are doing is going through legal channels, as it is.
I wonder if it will be difficult for the Trump team to prove their case. Even so it will drag out most likely. Perhaps that's the short term goal.
It is not a conspiracy "theory" that regime changes occur over the globe and corruption exists. People are disingenuous to believe otherwise.
Our national government is really a mess though, irregardless of the outcome of the election 2020.
The democratic party will fall apart this cycle -- eat their own.
So I guess the best thing is to think of some ancient wisdom that can be found in Ecclesiastes..
As there is nothing new under the sun.
Commissioner Bergosh, off-point and counterintuitive rambling above aside, can you explain the legality of this a little more? Just want to make sure I have this right:
--While the foreign military students are now prohibited from possessing firearms,
--Commercial dealers are of course under no obligation not to sell to them, so
--We're hoping, what? That gun shops will profile and turn in questionable actors?
If this happens, I hope it only happens when whatever background checks and paperwork *necessary by law* demonstrate clear evidence that the buyer is a foreign student. Otherwise this seems fraught with potential for a whole lotta amateur profiling and is just generally Kind of a Hot Mess.
Probably a lot I'm not getting about the legalities here, but encouraging the populace to report suspicions seems like opening up a whole new can of worms that could end up harassing someone with a legal right to bear arms. Seems like it would be better to focus the enforcement of this justifiable prohibition on the Base side.
--Melissa Pino
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