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You know they don't let us take our guns home, right?
The US army will give soldiers a stipend to purchase their own rifles for use in battle, and those are the property of the soldier. I mean you can use a general issue rifle which you don't get to keep, but everyonei knew opted for the stipend so they could build their own custom rifle and keep it.
Also nearly every police officer opts to use a stipend to purchase their own service firearm which is their personal property. You can use one issued by the PD, but again I don't know of anyone that opted for that route.
US Army does no such thing.
I don't know any soldiers who have told me that. Not saying you're wrong, just saying that's new info to me.
2A for all
Service weapons. My grandad brought some abomination home from the Khyber pass. Granted I didn't pry too much, cause I did that one time (unrelated story of his) and he shut the fuck down. Like went silent for what seemed like twenty minutes and just left the house. I tried asking my dad and he said he didn't know much about my grandad's time there either as he was born within days of my grandad's deployment.
Some countries do. Op may not be from the u. S.
He may be, but this is a very US centered post.
Oh for sure. Just giving a bit of info