[Centurion2000]

I guess putting a lock on a checked bag for a pilot is verboten too.

[leadpenny]

The pilots blame the TSA's insistence that the weapons be checked in baggage, when they are deadheading, for the disappearance of the guns.

We have met the enemy, and the enemy is the TSA.

[kittymyrib]

I strongly suspect TSA employees myself. They probably can get a nice chunk of change for a pilot's pistol on the street...

[SolutionsOnly]

Bad Headline.

The fact the is was a pilot who's gun was stolen is incidental. It coud have happened to anyone whoi checked a bag. The headline is worded as a statement against armed pilots. It is entirely disingenuous.

[WorkingClassFilth]

A couple of questions...

1) Are all pilots simply issued arms and required to carry? If so, the anti's among them will (are) help to make great political hay of that foolish policy.

2) Why not secure the arms in a locker on-board the aircraft? An alarm and keyed access should handle the security concerns.

[brityank]

~20% of FFDO weapons misplaced in last two months.

FIRE MINETA!!
DISBAND TSA!

[aomagrat]

Inside job. What did they think would happen when they take the same pre 9-11 security workers and give them a big raise and a federal badge?

[American_Centurion]

UPS has the TSA to thank for my increase in using their services.

I refuse to put anything at all in checked baggage. I carry my laptop and ship my luggage to my hotel in advance. For the return trip I ship baggage the day I leave and it usually arrives at my home in 3-4 days.

UPS doesn't rifle through my belongings at a whim looking for pilferable items. The TSA does and will if they suspect there is anything at all of value in your bags.

I would recommend to anyone planning a flight in advance to do the same. It doesn't work for last minute flights. If anyone can think of how it could I'm all ears.

[tomakaze]

re:The pilots blame the TSA's insistence that the weapons be checked in baggage, when they are deadheading, for the disappearance of the guns.
 
And they are 100% correct and justified in doing so.
far as I'm concered the TSA employees and baggage folks are nothing but theives (especially in the NorthEast).

[Gritty]

"In the last 60 days, we believe 300 weapons have been misplaced," - Dean Roberts, spokesman for the Airline Pilots Security Alliance

It's the unbelieveably idiotic rules and the TSA, not the pilots. If they had the guns on their persons, they would still have them.

Mineta (D-CA) and any bureaucrat connected to this program should be immediately fired for defying the will of Congress!

[MainFrame65]

> "Obviously, something might be wrong with the program," said the TSA's Melendez. <

Yeah, sure. The TSA and their stupid, obstructionist, anti-gun attitude.

[Prodigal Son]

Well, at the end of the day, pilots are officers. That's what they make dummy-cords for.

[Indrid Cold]

"The pilots blame the TSA's insistence that the weapons be checked in baggage, when they are deadheading, for the disappearance of the guns."

And the TSA refuses to accept responsibility for damaged or missing items.

[William Tell]

From the article: "In the last 60 days, we believe 300 weapons have been misplaced,"

Three hundred?! Misplaced?

If the TSA were a firearms dealer who only handled 1500 firearms and lost 300 of them there would be liberals demanding an investigation and insisting that the dealer be shut down and imprisoned.

Also, when I "misplace" something I usually find it later the same day. What in the world do they mean here?