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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SMS" data-source="post: 3113523" data-attributes="member: 42">Everyone in the USAF qualifies with the M-16 in boot camp.  After that, firearms training is very dependent on job specialty, unit of assignment, and “arming group”.  Some qualify every 6 months, some every year, some every two years etc...I was mostly a commo guy but received training on and carried/operated just about every common small arm in the inventory (M-16/M-4/GUU-5, M-203, M-9, M-60, M-240, 249, Mk46, M2, and shotguns) and also received professionally supervised familiarization with the Uzi (during a counter drug rotation in South America) and multiple AK platforms including the AKS-74U and RPK. None of that makes me more qualified or gives me more of a right to carry a pistol to Walmart on a Friday night without a permit than any other law abiding citizen.It’s not service specific either.  Every branch has troops that aren’t magically more qualified to conceal or open carry in a civilian environment than their civilian counterparts just by virtue of their service.</blockquote>