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Wrong. Look to Art 1 Sec 8 for the proper powers of the legislature. No where in there does it state they have the power to control interstate travel nor do they have the pwoer to legislate a department to do so. The President, only has administrative power over those departments that the legislature can legally set up under Art 1 sec 8.

Creating the DOT and FAA are extra-Constitutional under the "commerce clause". The same "commerce clause" that has been abused to prop up the WOD, welfare, and the social security ponzi scheme.

If the airlines are so busy, why do so many over them want bailout money from our taxes to keep them from going belly up?

Nothing stops someone bent on suicide. Using that as justification for disarming us all is ludacris and only creates a target rich enviroment for the criminal element and politicians.

Agreed that it is not verbatim, very little of what we have today, over 200yrs later, is verbatim. As are most laws, interpretation is the key here. The constitution has given the president the power to, as you say, 'create extra-constitutional departments'. Whether you agree or not, or like it or not, that is the way it is. The airlines are still busy, worldwide, and the airlines are very greedy. Like many huge organizations, scruples mean little to them. They will play this bailout crap as long as they can. The justification in not allowing ANY handguns on an aircraft, is pretty obvious. We won't even go into the fact that if you are making intercontinental flights, there is a good chance that you will not be on an American carrier. Many foreign airlines are run by the state, so whether you're govt allows a gun or not, you will leave it at the terminal when boarding a foreign domestic flight. Correct, suicides are hard, if not impossible, to stop, but, it's much harder to stop a terrorist that has a gun, and subsequent civilian injuries, than it is when the terrorist is armed with only a boxcutter, at the most. I'm sure even you would agree, that 5 people rushing a man with a knife, have a better chance of winning, than 5 people rushing a man with an auto.