I ran into a situation today where we were under attack in CA and it was me 1 CG and 1 SDW, we were in a firefight for a long time and they ran out of ammo, (I was a medic healing them all the time with my medi gun in my fleet job), to ensure we still could fight the droids back I handed my rifle to an SDW while I kept healing. I feel like this a good scenario to highlight when RP calls for it the rules work. Keeping the rule the same as it has always been isn't so bad as long as you give a bit of trust to the people involved to do the right thing. (He handed the rifle back after we cleared the room). I agree that maybe increasing it to Senior Officer + would be fine as the only people in that rank are those committed to being fleet by that point, so it makes sense. At the same time if people abuse it and get caught then it is easy to punish them.