I forgot that I had my gun at the airport the other day. Then I remembered, I wasn’t at the airport...
I’m sure many forgot. I wonder how many were set up? An angry spouse packed your carry on for you?
Every once in a while the captain would collect the bolt, but otherwise everyone was armed but not dangerous.
Won’t happen to me. I refuse to fly until the TSA goes away.
Innocent, non-violent people are being arrested. This allows tsa to boast about the arrest numbers and claim they are keeping us safe.
I had to get a guy’s security clearance reinstated after he forgot his revolver was in his backpack at the San Antonio airport. Fortunately, the guy was quite literally an Eagle scout, and the son and father of an Eagle scout, with an otherwise impeccable record. Of course, he’s going to have to remember to list the arrest every time he completes his e-QIP for clearance renewal for the rest of his life...
I think it’s insanity that we can’t carry our firearms just about anywhere we go. About the only place I think a check-in would necessary would be inside a courtroom.
When I was in high school, a classmate was shooting at a gun range with his dad over the weekend. He forgot that the gun and cartridges were in his backpack when he went to school Monday morning. He immediately realized and went straight to the front office to turn them in to the principal.
He was expelled and never able to graduate with us.
I don’t consider myself dressed for the day util I have a weapon on my hip. I can’t conceive not realizing I have it when going places it isn’t allowed. Airports and military installations are absolute no way to forget I am carrying places.
Could you just imagine if a Country’s Citizens actually had the God Given right to “Keep and Bear Arms” protected by their own government from being infringed upon, NO terrorist in their right mind would EVER try to attack a country like that with EVERY LAST CITIZEN ARMED! It would be certain death.
I was watching an old episode of Adam-12, and they brought out a wand to screen passengers only on a specific flight, and only because they knew there was an armed and dangerous man trying to make a getaway.
It was sad to see all those people freely entering and exiting the airport, and being secure in their persons, free to go anywhere in the concourse they wanted to go - even on a flight until there was probable cause to wand. Sad to me anyway, to see all the freedoms we have lost.
I heard it happened to Ted Nugent’s wife Shemane a while back at DFW.
In all honesty, as a CCW holder, I’d find it pretty hard to forget about that.
Better question. How many terrorists have the TSA caught?