No reason that they shoudl be treated any different than other Citizens.
It is notable that police officers, military personnel, and so on, do not usually buy the guns that they use in their duties—these are provided to them by their employers.
As far as purchasing firearms of their won, for their own personal use, nothing about their position entitles them to be treated any differently than anyone else.
No yahoo is going to drop dead, either, if he is required to pass a “literacy test” or pay a “poll tax” before he is allowed to vote.
So what?
There is nothing about rights such that the fact that someone will not drop dead if he is denied a particular right, or forced to endure unreasonable obstacles to the exercise thereof, provides any valid excuse for violating that right.
As a matter of fact, it also so happens that nobody is going to drop dead if government keeps its filthy hands out of things that are not its business, and allows the people the free and proper exercise of all their rights.
No, it's not. Not, at least, until there's a strong enough consensus to pass a Constitutional amendment that supersedes the Second Amendment. Until that happens, the Second Amendment stands exactly as it was ratified more than two centuries ago—the people have a right to keep and bear arms, and any infringement of this right is strictly forbidden. This means any effort on the part of government to discriminate against any free citizens who wish to exercise this right, and this means any efforts on the part of government to impose any background checks, permits, or other hoops through which a citizen must jump before he is allowed to exercise this right.
