Posted on 03/19/2024 5:57:07 AM PDT by marktwain
No worries - the fake ballots for Joe Biden always make it through!
I remember when lots of guns were stolen from train freight cars. Some idiot in Washington had decided that all guns shipped by rail had to have a big red sticker on labeled FIREARMS.
A gun dealer in Little Rock Arkansas told me that the conductors on the trains were in cahoots with people on the roads. Those on the roads would wait at certain rail crossings on rural roads and the conductors would toss off those labeled FIREARMS to a waiting car.
Years ago Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes did a report on robbed freight cars. He talked with a gang of blacks who said they had last stolen meat from a refrigerated car, but the best haul they ever made was...”GUNS!” They refused to say what they had done with them.
Same thing happened to me 50 years ago with a SEARS card.
If I were going to have a declared firearm in luggage I would disassemble it, put the slide and barrel in one bag, the frame in another. After the declaration someone said to then pull out a roll of heavy duct tape and wrap the luggage a couple of times.
It both made the bag more noticeable and added another barrier to entry.
Sending counterfeit bills through the mail in such a situation provides a great opportunity for a thief to get caught when they try to spend them.
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