Ronald Reagan carried .38 at all times as president

[Salyeica]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...d-handgun-briefcase-times-administration.html

I wonder what that would fetch at auction!

 

[scatter]

Awesome sauce. Nothing like Air Force One to get you past all those pesky checkpoints in the anti countries. Wonder if he packed his .38 when he visited Thatcher?

 

[Mike-Mike]

Armed: Author Brad Meltzer says Reagan took the gun even on board Air Force One. Above, stock image of a .38mm handgun

 

[DarthRevan]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...d-handgun-briefcase-times-administration.html

I wonder what that would fetch at auction!

They're spinning Brady's injury led to his death... 25+ years later.

 

[enbloc]

Aww, I would have pegged him as a 1911 guy...

 

[GP89]

I like the snippet about Brady:

James Brady, one of Reagan’s assistants, later died.

(twenty five years later)

 

[FPrice]

Nah, it was a

Carrying: Ronald Reagan carried a .35mm handgun in his briefcase throughout his presidency, a new book on the 40th president of the United States claims

 

[tk421991]

Wonder if DiFi also carries a revolver - it would fit under her AWB bill every year. Now the real question is what was Calvin Coolidge packing?

 

[Wendell]

It's Barack who doesn't carry any money on him.

We all know people like that.

 

[clampett]

At least the author of the article got the date of the attempted assassination right, or he was close, only off by 9 years.

 

[NickyBangBang]

Gotta love President Reagan. RIP

 

[GlockJock]

It's Barack who doesn't carry any money on him.

Sorry, not true. Barack always carries money - but he'll need change for a hundred...



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[LoginName]

Yeah, some people are above the law.

And if the excuse is that as CiC of the Armed Forces (military), he was exempt, that's really shaky ground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_Control_Regulations_Act_of_1975

 

[Glockster30]

They're spinning Brady's injury led to his death... 25+ years later.

I like the snippet about Brady:


(twenty five years later)

Actually, 33 years later.

 

[Precision Point Firearms]

Still a Giant Pussy in my book. **** that guy.

 

[kalash]

An American author has claimed that the former president never left the White House without a .38 caliber pistol by his side.

Carrying: Ronald Reagan carried a .35mm handgun in his briefcase throughout his presidency, a new book on the 40th president of the United States claims

So which is it?

 

[jkelly1229]

I honestly can't picture a president having to pay for a drink wouldn't you just be like bud your good if I can hang a picture on my wall that you were here. Respect the office even if Barry is a dink I'd probably poop myself if I ever met him

 

[enbloc]

.35mm is like three and a half human hairs stacked on each other, or seven red hairs...

 

[whacko]

I would love to see that pistol

 

[Zappa]

Carrying: Ronald Reagan carried a.35mm handgun in his briefcase throughout his presidency, a new book on the 40th president of the United States claims

That's a really small caliber, I think that's what Papa Smurf carries.

 

[grey]

weird article. Very poor editing

 

[swampy]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...d-handgun-briefcase-times-administration.html

I wonder what that would fetch at auction!

There was a mention a while back in an article or a book by a guy named Kessler, who was either a Secret Service Agent or writing about Secret Service Agents, about Reagan carrying a gun when he was running for president. Here's a piece of it. Former Secret Service agent Thomas Blecha remembers that when Reagan was running for president the first time, he came out of his home in Bel Air to drive to Rancho del Cielo, the Reagan ranch north of Santa Barbara. Another agent noticed that he was wearing a pistol and asked what that was for.

“Well, just in case you guys can’t do the job, I can help out,” Reagan — code-named Rawhide — replied.

I found the article, from 2011, on a Newsmax archive.

 

[Horrible]

That's a really small caliber, I think that's what Papa Smurf carries.

And a 35mm would be one helluva carry piece

 

[Garys]

It's Barack who doesn't carry any money on him.

We all know people like that.

Neither did Clinton or JFK. I understand that Carter did, but his tips only amounted to peanuts.

 

[quietman]

The media talks about Presidents not carrying any money on them, Yet the story has it that when he made the unplanned stop in South Boston and went into a bar for a drink that he paid for the drink himself out of his pocket.

When the secret service went into the Erie Pub in Dorchester they saw FBI undercover agents and left. Turns out the place and/or patrons were under surveillance.

 

[Zappa]

Presidents never carry cash, no need to because someone else always pays the bill.
For those rare occasions when they do pick up the tab, they like to pay by check, because the chances are good that the check will be kept as a souvenir and not actually cashed.
IIRC, Harry Truman was well known for this, and there were many restaurants with one of his checks hanging in a frame on the wall.

 

[browncoat]

Aww, I would have pegged him as a 1911 guy...

A revolver pretty well fits my major fudd image of him

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[rivet_42]

They're spinning Brady's injury led to his death... 25+ years later.

To be fair, it actually did.

The rule in English common law used to be "a year and a day"...if the person died of injuries sustained within a year and a day, the person who assaulted him was guilty of murder...if it was more than a year and a day, it was assumed that the death could not be directly traced back to the original assault. That has changed a great deal given modern medical science, which can keep people who are drastically injured alive a long time, and modern forensic science, which can create a plausible chain of evidence detailing how a specific injury led to death years later. Whether year-and-a-day still applies varies by jurisdiction.

The medical examiner found that John Hinckley's gunshots had caused James Brady's death. However, the chances of successfully prosecuting Hinckley for Brady's murder look kinda dubious, not least because year-and-a-day was still the law in D.C. in 1981, and because Hinckley previously successfully pleaded insanity for his crimes, which means that additional prosecution for his actions in regard to the shooting would also come under "not guilty by reason of insanity."

Another famous case, one even more extreme, is that of the last victim of the mass shooting perpetrated by Charles Whitman in 1966, David Gunby, who died in 2001. He took a hit to the kidney, and he had only been born with one. He spent the rest of his life with kidney problems and that's what eventually killed him. Had he not been shot that day, he could have lived his life happily with one kidney--many people do, either due to birth defect, injury, or because they've donated one. His death was also ruled a homicide.

 

[Rob Boudrie]

Awesome sauce. Nothing like Air Force One to get you past all those pesky checkpoints in the anti countries. Wonder if he packed his .38 when he visited Thatcher?

A TSA manual was leaked a few years ago, in which it was disclosed that dignitaries traveling with a federal law enforcement protective escort were permitted to skip screening.

 

[Rob Boudrie]

Yeah, some people are above the law.

And if the excuse is that as CiC of the Armed Forces (military), he was exempt, that's really shaky ground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_Control_Regulations_Act_of_1975

How so? Are you saying military under official orders cannot carry in DC?

Although perhaps procedure required he order himself to be armed.