A 380 Ruger LCP pistol, loaded. Seized May 28 from a Tennessee salesman, 45.
The News Observer
More and more gun owners this year are trying to board airliners with weapons tucked in their pockets and carry-on bags, the Transportation Security Administration says. TSA screeners at airport checkpoints across the country seized 894 guns, most of them loaded, during the first six months of 2013 – 30 percent more than in the same period in 2012.
“We’ve become such an armed society that people actually aren’t thinking about the fact that they’re carrying weapons with them,” [Wake County prosecutor] Willoughby said. “That’s a little bit sobering, to think that we are so accustomed to carrying a firearm with us that we often don’t think about it or realize that we have it.”
That, plus the fact that the downside is not all that severe. If these oversights were treated more seriously, like gun misuse should, we'd see a dramatic decline in these reports.
What did that say? We've become such an armed society? No, that can't be. Gun ownership is on the decline. Jadegold said so.
ReplyDeletePitiful. Whether these idiots were stupid enough to forget they had a gun on them, or criminal enough to purposely bring them, they should have their gun rights removed permanently and be arrested immediately.
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