Biff_Poindexter
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Atlanta passenger cleared security with bag that may have held a gun, official says | CNN
The Transportation Security Administration has started an investigation after an official said a gun may have been missed during a security check at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.
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"The Transportation Security Administration has started an investigation after an official said a gun may have been missed during a security check at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. A carry-on bag screening detected an item on Tuesday that may have been a firearm, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The bag did not set off an alarm when it was run a second time through the screening device, and the passenger was allowed to leave the checkpoint with the bag. TSA has not definitively identified the item and does not know the identity of the passenger. "As a prudent security measure, TSA scanned the terminal for the passenger with the carry-on bag in question," the statement said. "By the time they saw it, the passenger was probably on a flight," the official said. The agency said in its statement that its officers are finding guns "at an alarming rate at checkpoints." Last year set a record for firearms caught at checkpoints -- even though fewer people were traveling because of the pandemic."
Fortunately, for this guy - he was able to get his gun on the plane without government trying to come down on him like a ton of bricks.....if it is as reported, and he did have a gun.... so what?? Why shouldn't he or anyone else be able to carry their weapons onto a plane?? Whatever measures that was put into place after 9/11 -- most of it was overreach and a chance to implement tyranny onto the rest of us...and most of it has outlived its time....the whole taking off your shoes, dictating what you can or can't carry on, all of the hurdles and checkpoints -- all of this is overreach.....All because of something that happened one time over 20 years ago and hasn't happened since...so why keep these policies in place? In fact, why do we still have a TSA? All of that should abolished and left up to the airlines to decide what security measures best serves their passengers. If by chance, some muslim decides he wants to hijack another plane, the more armed people on that plane, the more likely that muslim will be stopped.....