President Ronald Reagan carried a handgun with him at all times during his years in office, author Brad Meltzer writes in the New York Daily News.
Meltzer says he was doing research for his latest thriller "The President's Shadow," and wanted to talk to Secret Service agents about how the president lives.
At Secret Service headquarters he was taken to a small museum area where he saw such items as a newspaper marking John F. Kennedy's assassination and the actual door from the limousine Reagan was getting into when he was shot by John Hinckley Jr.
"It was an eerie keepsake for sure," Meltzer writes. "But not nearly as eerie as the next detail they told me. We were talking about Reagan and that day he was shot. Then one of the agents offered this secret: When Reagan was president, he carried his own gun."
Reagan carried the .38-caliber in his briefcase, and even took it onto Air Force One, Meltzer was told.
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3 comments:
a .38 is the perfect concealed handgun. small enough to keep tucked away, but large enough caliber to get the job done.
One of the retired Secret Service agents that guarded Reagan used to live just west of Fenwick (about a mile) and his son, also a retired Secret Service agent who guarded George Bush (Sr. or Jr.??) lives in Omar, Delaware. Both are great guys.
As I said a few days back,a gun may or may not have saved the woman because in addition to possessing a gun and having it on her person she had to get to it.He did not or could not,and whether or not she could have is debatable.
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