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I've already emailed our Grand Secretary asking if there are any provisions in our Grand Lodge code prohibiting it, and my Mother Lodge's landlord asking if they have any policies.

If the answer to both is no, I have already informed my Worshipful Master that I intend to propose a Standing Resolution of our Lodge making it our policy that sworn LEOs are explicitly permitted to carry their service weapons while in Lodge.  

If someone comes to the door with a weapon and an axe to grind, I am not about trying to hamper the cops that might be able to protect me.

Of course, under normal circumstances it is very ill-advised and perhaps prohibited in some jurisdictions to bring weapons of any sort into a lodge. In the case where a threat exists to a lodge, I'm not sure at this point what the response should be. I feel that people and lodges have a right to protect themselves and not be subject to intimidation, but things have to be analyzed very carefully. Any sort of knee-jerk reaction could do more harm than good. 

I think it's too early to tell right now what the reaction should be. Just my opinion.

I may not be a Mason, but this attack caught me off guard.

A year or two ago someone tried to light the hallway entrance to the Boston Grand Lodge on Tremont street on fire with a molotov cocktail.  But he was just some kind of nut acting alone.

But this attack by an avowed Muslim because Freemasonry supposedly plays with world politics like a game, was done methodically - with a plan and a purpose.  I was a bit shocked that a radical Muslim should all of a sudden single out Freemasonry??  What's the point??