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Most armies that I am aware of still require soldiers to unload when on base for good reasons.
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Here's some food for thought. One of the members here posted a while back how when clearing their guns to go into the mess hall, which requires dropping a mag, clearing the chamber, and pointing your gun into a bucket of sand to dry fire, that a superior officer had 2 negligent discharges. He failed to drop his mag, racked the slide, pointed and fired. A second time, without dropping the mag, he racked the slide, pointed the gun, and fired. Both times he did not actually mean to fire his weapon, the member noted that this particular solider was a higher up who almost never handled a weapon on a daily basis. He had 2 negligent discharges in a matter of a few seconds because of the ridiculous policy of soldiers having to unload their weapons when on base. Those negligent discharges would not have happened otherwise.