People who are dumb enough to try taking a loaded gun onto an airplane are lacking the mental capacity to own a gun without endangering other people. In civilized countries, this usually will lead to a revocation of your firearms licence.
If the person is charged and convicted it is effectively the same result in the US, as it constitutes a felony and convicted felons are barred from firearms purchase and possession.
Wouldn’t that be being reactive rather than proactive?
Edit: you can downvote me but the truth will still be the same
well yeah, but you don’t actually know if they’re that dumb until they do something that dumb.
If only there was a way to administer some kind of test to prove that they aren’t that dumb before allowing them to purchase a gun.
Too bad there isn’t. Oh well, what can you do!
At least TSA has something to do now lol
They fine $15k for every violation. They’re making bank
I have no idea how anyone can “forget” they are carrying. I carried fairly regularly for years before letting my CCW expire during COVID. And I was always VERY aware that I was carrying, checked regularly to make sure I wasn’t printing, and what places allowed and didn’t allow carrying.
To me, forgetting you are carrying a gun and going to the airport is a negligent as leaving your gun in a bathroom. It shows you are not treating it with the respect and caution that should be required in order to own a gun.
EDIT: Clarified that I carried for years and made sure I wasn’t printing.
checked regularly to make sure I was printing,
Either this is a spell correct or I simply don’t understand the sentence…
Yeah, autocorrect fail. Meant that I wasn’t printing. Which means I made sure that there wasn’t an obvious gun bulge or something visible.
/u/electric trombone pointed that out, yeah.
It’s just complacence. Doing the same thing every day. It’s just a habit. People probably forget. That’s not an excuse at all , in fact, I’d say that becoming complacent with a firearm is extremely bad in any circumstance.
It seems insane that people take a gun with them so often that it becomes a habit. Impossible to comprehend from a country without an unhinged gun culture.
I agree that it is insane. But considering that I live in a country with an unhinged gun culture, it is part of life.
And weirdly, you have to strike a balance. You don’t want to be complacent and forget you’re carrying a gun or treat it like it isn’t the deadly weapon that it is. But you have to be comfortable and familiar enough with it to be able to go about your day and be able to reliably draw and fire accurately if a situation occurs where the gun is necessary. Otherwise, there is no point in carrying at all.
Maybe a good comparison is driving or operating heavy machinery? You need to be aware at all times that you are operating something that could kill you and others in an instant at all times. You need to know where you are, where others are, etc. But you also need to be comfortable and familar enough with your vehicle or equipment that you can operate it smoothly and react to unforseen events.
I’ve had issues with pocket knives I forgot I couldn’t take through security. I assume it’s that same with any object a person carries habitually.
I’m just happy they found them. Historically, the TSA doesn’t do a good job finding guns.
Well, that is an entirely different point. TSA is 99% security theater to make people feel safe. If they found a record number of weapons, but on the other hand miss most of them anyway, did they miss a record number of weapons, too?
7000 guns. With those numbers they should simply accommodate the customers. Simply provide gun locks at each checkpoint.
- “It looks like you have a gun on you, sir. Please place this gun lock on it. It will be unlocked by an agent at your destination”
- “Yes officer, I forgot I had a gun in my sock, sorry. Thank you for the lock. Bye.”
Problem solved.
One time I had a giant Costco-sized thing of Tums in my bag and they brought out the drug sniffing dog and the science kit to take one - from the still unopened bottle - and test it.
It was a minor annoyance, but I couldn’t imagine packing to go to the airport and not making sure I don’t have a loaded gun on me first. That would be the first step, before ID or whatever.
TSA does not own any drug sniffing dogs. All of their dogs are trained solely for the detection of explosives. The TSA is very open about the fact they are not looking drugs.
Huh….well I assumed drugs. Interesting!
We shouldn’t need to issue PSAs about not bringing your gun in your carry on, but here we are.
