Originally Posted By SuperDry <a href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20091008a5.html" target="_blank">http://search.japantimes.co.jp...8a5.html</a> What do you suppose they'll do to this guy?
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 How do you "forget" that you had a gun in your bag from years ago? When you were packing it, you didn't feel a big metal thing in there?? I don't understand that at all.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt Maybe I'm just ignorant, but I can't understand why some people find it necessary to own a gun. The owner says it was for competition. What kind of sport requires the use of hand guns? More importantly, how the heck did a LOADED hand gun get through security check in Dallas?
Originally Posted By mawnck I thought Congress had passed a law making it legal to carry a loaded firearm in Japan. My question is, how come the US screeners missed it?
Originally Posted By WilliamK99 The fact that it was in his carry on bag scares me..... What kind of idiots do we have working as screeners at airports? It's not like it is that hard to pick out the shape of a gun from their machines.... I hope someone gets fired for this and some retraining is done....
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "What kind of idiots do we have working as screeners at airports?" Whoops! There it is! <a href="http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/Police%20State/tsa_breast_groping.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.jesus-is-savior.com...ping.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "What kind of idiots do we have working as screeners at airports?" Or..... <a href="http://www.dba-oracle.com/images/barney_fife.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.dba-oracle.com/imag...fife.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By fkurucz <<My question is, how come the US screeners missed it?>> So do we all feel safer now that they are patting down grannies?
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< So do we all feel safer now that they are patting down grannies? >>> This situation actually speaks to the need to NOT profile people at airport security screening. We don't know much about the person with the gun, other than that he's a US citizen, male, and 51 years old. Let's assume that he acts and appears to be a "normal, everyday American" (assume just for the sake of this discussion that we all agree as to what this means). This guy wouldn't be very high on anyone's profiling score as to being a potential threat, yet he was the one that carried a loaded gun onto the plane. It's situations like these why we need to search everyone.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< What kind of sport requires the use of hand guns? >>> Uh, pistol shooting perhaps? It's an Olympic sport practiced in lots of nations.
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder "We don't know much about the person with the gun, other than that he's a US citizen, male, and 51 years old. Let's assume that he acts and appears to be a "normal, everyday American" (assume just for the sake of this discussion that we all agree as to what this means). This guy wouldn't be very high on anyone's profiling score as to being a potential threat, yet he was the one that carried a loaded gun onto the plane. It's situations like these why we need to search everyone." You just described me.
Originally Posted By barboy ///What do you suppose they'll do to this guy?/// This has a potential to go big time in terms of punishment. Interesting, very interesting! He started in a place that loves guns(Texas) but got caught in a country that is one of the most intolerant of firearms on Earth. At least he didn't change planes in Hangapore(or even Malaysia and Indonesia) because he might well be hanged on a Friday morning within a year.
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 Last year I was pulled out for additional screening because I forgot to take my lens cleaner for my glasses out of purse and it was not in a ziploc baggie. How in the world did this guy not get questioned for a gun? I mean, I know lens cleaner is dangerous and all but I am sure that if you look at statistics comparing lens cleaner related violence to gun violence the gun violence would rate at least a little higher.
Originally Posted By barboy ///How in the world did this guy not get questioned for a gun?/// I'll be up front and say that I have no idea how those conveyors/scanners/monitors work when we take shoes, belts and trappings off and place them in trays for inspection. Are they weight, color, odor, temperature, size, shape, material sensitive???..... BUT...... just several hrs. ago while queuing for a plane change in Taipei back to the USA for inspection of non check-in items I closely watched Taiwan's version of a Transportation Security Admin(TSA)official who did not look at the his monitor. He yawned, caught me observing him and turned to another "TSA" agent for quick comments. 2 trays on the conveyor passed his monitor while he was not looking at it. Is it possible that something like that happened in Texas?
Originally Posted By gurgitoy2 "Uh, pistol shooting perhaps? It's an Olympic sport practiced in lots of nations." Well, the article says it was a semiautomatic...so, I'm not sure what sport those are allowed in.
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin Wouldn't you have been looking for the gun between trips? I mean a gun is a big deal. You want to keep it locked up in a gun safe or something, right? Not just left in a suitcase...just sounds like another careless gun owner to me...everything I own that can cause damage/injury is locked up and secured. I know exactly where my car is, my lawn mower and other gardening tools are locked in the garage, my meds and vitamins are in child proof containers kept in a small storage bin put up where no little visiting grandchildren could gain access to them. So why wouldn't a person who owns firearms know exactly where every piece is?
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< Well, the article says it was a semiautomatic...so, I'm not sure what sport those are allowed in. >>> Maybe not an Olympic sport, but there are plenty of shooting competitions that involve semi-automatic handguns. <<< Wouldn't you have been looking for the gun between trips? I mean a gun is a big deal. You want to keep it locked up in a gun safe or something, right? >>> Absolutely. <<< Not just left in a suitcase...just sounds like another careless gun owner to me... >>> That's the best case scenario for this situation. Some states have "safe storage" laws that require firearms be properly stored when kept in the home, but Texas isn't one of them AFAIK.
Originally Posted By Sara Tonin Well, to phrase it nicely..Texas is one of our more rogue states...sort of like Alaska...except you can reason with Alaskans...now I've pissed off Texans AND Alaskans....Pig Pile!!!
