{"id":60989,"date":"2015-07-23T08:57:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T12:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=60989"},"modified":"2015-07-23T08:57:28","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T12:57:28","slug":"certified-troops-can-carry-weapons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60989","title":{"rendered":"Certified troops can carry weapons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Jeff Schogol, sends us a link from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/story\/military\/2015\/07\/22\/law-lets-certified-troops-carry-concealed-handguns\/30464093\/\">Military Times&#8217;<\/a> Oriana Pawlyk who tells us that some folks in the military are authorized to carry concealed weapons on and off duty with certain permissions;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Law Enforcement Officers Safety Act of 2004, a little-known federal law that was extended to apply to military personnel in 2013, already gives credentialed troops \u2014 in addition to military police \u2014 authority to carry weapons while off duty in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, according to a U.S. military official.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>A key requirement to qualify for concealed carry under the law is 10 or more years of experience as a law enforcement official.<\/p>\n<p>When it comes to determining threats, LEOSA-credentialed individuals are considered to have skill sets that go \u201cbeyond the average citizen,\u201d the military official told Military Times on the condition of anonymity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, it&#8217;s not for grunts, but, if it applies to anyone out there, the article goes into detail on how to get certified.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our buddy, Jeff Schogol, sends us a link from the Military Times&#8217; Oriana Pawlyk who tells &hellip; <a title=\"Certified troops can carry weapons\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=60989\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Certified troops can carry weapons<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":60990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}