On 4/29/2022 6:37 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> On Apr 29, 2022 at 1:19:36 PM PDT, "Ed Stasiak" <edstasiak1067@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>> Rhino
>>>
>>> Or would it be fair to say that protectees are effectively prohibited
>>> from carrying their own weapons because the Secret Service is
>>> handling their protection?
>>
>> Elvis gave President Nixon a handgun at the White House;
>>
>> https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f4/41/ba/f441baebd4ef77411c7ff75f4d5c0acf.jpg
>
> The Elvis gun is in the USSS armory at the Beltsville Training Facility. I've
> held it and dry-fired it.
>
> Bush used to shoot skeet at his ranch in Texas, so presidents do use firearms.

And VPs too. Cheney was hunting in WY, rather famously.

> And sometimes protectees carry them, too. Yasser Arafat used to carry a .45
> with him wherever he went and when his DSS detail knocked on his hotel room
> door during a UNGA visit in New York, after getting no answer, they entered
> and found Arafat hunkered down behind the furniture, pointing his .45 at them.
> (He didn't trust that his American protective detail wasn't secretly working
> for the Israelis and he was convinced DSS was constantly planning to
> assassinate him.)
>
>