Do you get to keep your weapons after being discharged from the military?

9 Responses

1. brandonaltemueller

   March 11th, 2010 at 6:45 pm

   When you are in the military, you are assigned a weapon at the unit you work for. You dont take the weapon home at night, in fact it stays in an arms room (think vault) at all times. The only time the weapon leaves the arms room is when you draw it out to go to the range, perform weapons maintenance, and go to war. There could be as much as 2-3 months you could go without seeing your weapon. When you leave your duty station or even unit and go to another even if it is on the same post, you are issued a new weapon at the unit you go to. The weapon you last had is no longer assigned to you and a new soldier takes it on.

2. Dan

   March 11th, 2010 at 6:45 pm

   NO, the weapons belong to the Military not the military member.

   8 year former Marine.

3. sablelieger

   March 11th, 2010 at 6:45 pm

   No, the weapons are property of the military and once you are discharged from the military, the rifle gets reassigned to your replacement, so he has a rifle to fight with.

4. Inquisitive Idiot

   March 11th, 2010 at 6:45 pm

   If they are weapons you bought at a pawn shop or from a weapons dealer of some sort, for protection or sport, yes. As for your issued M16A2, M4, M249, M9, etc that is a big NO.

5. darkpotameides45

   March 11th, 2010 at 6:45 pm

   yeah they just give em out like candy…….

6. devildawg367

   March 11th, 2010 at 6:45 pm

   Most of the weapons you use in the military are illegal for civilians to won. And they don’t belong to you.

7. rebeli812

   March 11th, 2010 at 6:45 pm

   just your hands and your brain. you dont get to keep the hardware

8. gman

   March 11th, 2010 at 6:45 pm

   I think the Army has an excess of Bradley Fighting Vehicles, so you can keep those. Same goes for the Air Force and ICBM’s.

9. rayray

   March 11th, 2010 at 6:45 pm

   sure you do opie

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