The military (all branches) is anti-gunowner. Individuals within the Army might be gunowners (I spent fourteen years in the Army), but generally the Army dosen't trust soldiers or civilians with firearms.
Also, like police officers (I'm one of those now as well), you'll find that many soldiers (officer and enlisted) aren't very knowledgable about firearms. To many of them their rifle is a tool and they give it no thought beyond what the Army requires. Which consists of qualfication and the occassional cleaning mostly. There isn't much passion for firearms.
Heck in of couple of my units they restricted the length of knife blades. I had one battalion commander in Germany who wouldn't let us take anything bigger then a pocket knife out to the field.
Because many filters block based on the actual content (too many instances of the word gun) I've found an effective solution is bouncing through a secure web-proxy so the packets coming in 'look' like junk to the filter, however is decrypted on the end users computer. An example:
My employer uses Websense as a filter. What's funny is if I type "www.fsurf.com" into my browser, it blocks it under the category, "Proxy Avoidance". But if I clink your link, then delete the end of the url until it reads only "www.fsurf.com" it works.
By the way, thanks for the link, it's the first method of everything metioned in this thread that defeats Websense, the webfilter that blocks almost everything gun-related, but not espn.com., VPC's website, et.c. pfff..
By the way, thanks for the link, it's the first method of everything metioned in this thread that defeats Websense, the webfilter that blocks almost everything gun-related, but not espn.com., VPC's website, et.c. pfff..
Really, it's just understanding what is happining at a basic level. 'Course most people expect this from a college student studying Computer Technology.
There are other sercure web-proxy's that may not register as such to websence that may be worth a shot.
The original and best document on bypassing filters is:
Don't know if they still do it or not but the my guard unit recently had a lot of sites blocked. All the college/universtiysites that the education assistance NCO used for information on classes were blocked. Go figure that one out.
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