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“And so this policy, which was developed in close consultation with the National Guard, will allow them to protect themselves and not be vulnerable”.

Two states, Michigan and Kentucky, have authorized their guardsmen to carry personal weapons for protection, said Major Edward Shank, public affairs officer for the Pennsylvania National Guard and its 20,000 members. Reports of these self-appointed sentinels-some of them from...

Members of the Michigan Open Carry group are “standing guard” with their weapons outside the Howell Armed Forces Recruiting Center in solidarity for the five “great American warriors” slain in Chattanooga.

Ed Reinhold, the FBI’s special agent in charge in Knoxville, said that officials were still conducting an investigation of Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, the gunman who was killed by police after the July 16 shootings, according to the Associated Press.

At least seven governors around the country allowed members of the National Guard to carry weapons, after a gunman killed five people at a military recruiting center and a naval support center in Chattanooga on July 16.

On Monday, a Marine challenged Americans to “teach Obama respect” by flying all US flags at half-staff in honour of the five service members killed in the deadly Chattanooga attack. Five didn’t make it.

They say they plan to protect recruiters following last week’s killing of four Marines and a sailor in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

A service member opened fire on the Chattanooga gunman after he crashed the gates of a military reserve center last week, an FBI investigator disclosed on Wednesday.

On Monday, yellow police tape still blocked access to it and law enforcement vehicles were parked nearby with lights flashing.

Following the slayings of four Marines and a sailor at two Chattanooga, Tennessee military installations, an Inland congressman has introduced a bill to allow military officers to carry firearms at recruitment centers.

The FBI says Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez crashed his vehicle through the gate, exchanged shots with one of the service members, blasted his way through the building, and then back outside to the fenced-in motor pool.

Here is the full text of his proclamation: Our thoughts and prayers as a Nation are with the service members killed last week in Chattanooga.

In the wake of the attacks at two military facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee, a few citizens are taking protecting military recruiting centers into their own hands.

(Doug Strickland/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP).

His family said in a statement issued Saturday through a lawyer that Abdulazeez had suffered from depression for many years and “was not the son we knew and loved”.