2026年4月2日 / 美国东部时间晚上9:48 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
美国国防部长皮特·黑格塞斯周四表示，他将允许军人将私人武器带入军事基地，理由是第二修正案以及近期美国各地军事基地发生的枪击事件。
在X平台发布的一段视频中，黑格塞斯表示，他将签署一份备忘录，指示基地指挥官允许军人携带私人拥有的枪支，“默认此举是出于个人保护的必要”。
他表示，任何拒绝军人持枪申请的决定都必须详细书面说明理由。
“实际上，我们全国各地的基地都曾是禁枪区，”黑格塞斯说。“除非正在训练，或者是军事警察，否则你不能携带、不能为了个人保护将自己的枪支带入营地。”
在美国军事基地发生枪击事件后，关于军人无法使用武器的问题时常引发质疑。此类枪击事件范围广泛，从军人之间的孤立冲突到大规模伤亡事件都有，比如2009年得克萨斯州胡德堡基地一名陆军精神病医生持枪行凶，造成13人死亡。
黑格塞斯在视频中提及了其中几起事件，包括去年佐治亚州斯图尔特堡基地一起枪击事件，造成五名士兵受伤。官员表示，枪手是一名在该基地工作的陆军中士，他使用了自己的手枪，随后被其他士兵制服并逮捕。陆军检察官称，他正寻求对谋杀未遂及其他指控认罪。
“在这类事件中，几分钟就是一辈子，”黑格塞斯说。“而我们的军人有勇气和能力，让这些宝贵的短暂时刻发挥作用。”
美国国防部此前的政策禁止军人未经高级指挥官许可在基地携带私人武器，并且对枪支存放方式有严格规定。
通常情况下，军人必须正式从安全存放处取出枪支，前往基地内的狩猎区或射击场，在获准使用后需及时将所有枪支归还存放处。除射击场、狩猎区或训练期间士兵可不带弹药使用配发武器外，军事警察往往是基地内唯一的武装人员。
布雷迪枪支暴力预防组织的高级顾问坦尼娅·沙尔特在给美联社的一份声明中表示，国防部领导层和军方高级将领此前一直反对放宽现行政策，该政策最初是在乔治·H·W·布什总统任内制定的。
沙尔特指出，大多数现役军人自杀时使用的是自己拥有的枪支，而非军方配发的，并辩称此举“无疑将增加枪支自杀和其他枪支暴力事件”。
根据周二发布的五角大楼报告，尽管2024年美军自杀死亡人数有所减少，但2011年至2024年间，现役部队的整体自杀率仍在逐步上升。
“我们的军事基地是世界上戒备最森严、保护最到位的场所之一，它们从来都不是‘禁枪区’，”沙尔特说。“如果这些基地内存在暴力犯罪问题，那么国防部长有义务告知美国民众，并说明他将如何努力预防这类犯罪。”
黑格塞斯放宽枪支规定的决定是这位国防部长最近一次对军事政策做出的调整。在执掌五角大楼期间，黑格塞斯一直抨击他眼中的“觉醒”政策，并试图全面改革军方的平等机会政策、仪容和体能标准等方方面面。
军方还试图切断与黑格塞斯认为是“觉醒温床”的顶尖研究生院的联系，并指示图书馆识别并在某些情况下移除宣扬多样性、公平性和包容性的书籍。上周，黑格塞斯宣布对军方牧师团进行一系列改革。
黑格塞斯还罢免了多名高级军官，最近一次是陆军参谋长兰迪·乔治将军，他于周四被要求立即退休。
Hegseth says he will let troops take personal firearms onto military bases
April 2, 2026 / 9:48 PM EDT / CBS/AP
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Thursday that he will allow service members to carry personal weapons onto military installations, citing the Second Amendment and recent shootings at bases across the country.
In a video posted to X, Hegseth said he is signing a memo that will direct base commanders to allow requests for troops to carry privately owned firearms “with the presumption that it is necessary for personal protection.”
He said any denial of a service member’s request must be explained in detail and in writing.
“Effectively, our bases across the country were gun-free zones,” Hegseth said. “Unless you’re training or unless you are a military policeman, you couldn’t carry, you couldn’t bring your own firearm for your own personal protection onto post.”
Questions about why service members lacked access to weapons have often emerged following shootings on the nation’s military bases. Such shootings have ranged from isolated events between service members to mass casualty events, such as the shooting by an Army psychiatrist at Texas’ Ford Hood in 2009 that left 13 people dead.
Hegseth cited some of those events in his video, including a shooting that injured five soldiers at Fort Stewart in Georgia last year. Officials said the shooter, an Army sergeant who worked at the base, used his personal handgun before he was tackled by fellow soldiers and arrested. Army prosecutors say he is seeking to plead guilty to attempted murder and other charges.
“In these instances, minutes are a lifetime,” Hegseth said. “And our service members have the courage and training to make those precious, short minutes count.”
Defense Department policy has prohibited military personnel from carrying personal weapons on base without permission from a senior commander, with strict protocol for how the firearms must be stored.
Typically, military personnel must officially check their guns out of secure storage to go to on-base hunting areas or shooting ranges, then check all firearms back in promptly after their sanctioned use. Military police are often the only armed personnel on base, outside of shooting ranges, hunting areas or in training, where soldiers can wield their service weapons without ammunition.
Tanya Schardt, senior counsel at the Brady gun violence prevention organization, said in a statement to The Associated Press that Defense Department leaders and the military’s top brass have opposed relaxing the current policy, which was originally enacted under President George H.W. Bush.
Schardt noted that most active duty service members who die by suicide do so with a weapon they own personally, not one military-issued, and argued that there will “undoubtedly be an increase in gun suicide and other gun violence.”
While fewer American service members died by suicide in 2024, the suicide rates among active duty troops overall still have gradually increased between 2011 and 2024, according to a Pentagon report released Tuesday.
“Our military installations are among the most guarded, protected properties in the world, and they’ve never been ‘gun-free zones,’” Schardt said. “If there is a problem with violent crime on these installations, then the Secretary of Defense has an obligation to alert the American people and describe how he’s working to prevent that crime.”
Hegseth’s decision to loosen firearm rules marks the defense secretary’s latest change to military policy. During his time in Pentagon leadership, Hegseth has railed against what he views as “woke” policies, and has sought to overhaul everything from the military’s equal opportunity policies to its grooming and fitness standards.
The military has also sought to cut ties with top graduate school programs that Hegseth views as “woke breeding grounds,” and has directed libraries to identify and in some cases remove books that promote diversity, equity and inclusion. And last week, Hegseth announced a series of reforms to the military’s Chaplain Corps.
Hegseth has also ousted several top military officials, most recently Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, who was asked to take immediate retirement on Thursday.