Guns.com: ‘SEMPER FI’ bill will allow military recruiters to carry on station
Jared Morgan for Guns.com reports:
A new bill introduced by Republican lawmakers this week will allow military personnel to carry weapons at recruitment centers across the country.
In the wake of the fatal shooting of five Marines and sailors at a recruiting station in Chattanooga, Tenn. last week, Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., and Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., introduced the Securing Military Personnel Response Firearm Initiative Act, or the SEMPER FI Act, on Tuesday, The Hill reported.
The act is named for the Marine Corps motto “Semper Fidelis,” a Latin phrase meaning “Always Faithful.”
“We need to make it tough for anyone who might think of busting into a recruiting office with the intent to harm,” said Hunter, a former Marine who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. “Any person or group of people who make that mistake should know that there are a few Marines, soldiers or other service members on the other side of that door who’ve heard the sound of gunfire, who’ve had all the right firearms experience and training, and who aren’t defenseless.”
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