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To: CottonBall

Just had interesting experience at airport. I just went through security screening and they did something they didn’t do when I left Nashville.

After the patdown portion, the screener asked me to hold my hands out, palms up. She ran a little swab over each of them and stuck the swabs in a machine. I know she was testing for GSR.

They didn’t swab the guy going through screening right behind me. Could have been totally random, could be my gun permit is showing on my record now that I’ve been fingerprinted, or could be they do it to all southerners. I actually had my semi searched for weapons when going into Canada because of having a license from a southern state. Canada told me that was why they were doing it.


3,173 posted on 01/07/2021 9:17:20 AM PST by Spirit of Liberty (It's morning in America again!)
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To: Spirit of Liberty

Big Brother’s tentacles are everywhere. After yesterday, the left will be relentless at pursuing and singling out conservatives.


3,182 posted on 01/07/2021 9:33:18 AM PST by CottonBall (COVID -1984)
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To: Spirit of Liberty

Very interesting.


3,214 posted on 01/07/2021 10:33:32 AM PST by Rusty0604 (2020 four more years!)
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To: Spirit of Liberty

Spirit, that is not real unusual. I traveled every week for almost 10 years. I had both hips replaced and before they had the walk in machine, I had to do pat and wand. Even though I knew most of the TSA screeners by name and went to dinner with several. The boss lived down the block from me. They still had to do the “bomb” test swab on me on occasion. I truly was so used to arms out, palms up, etc. Wait for the cotton swab to come out of little machine. You were probably just random. But, they were doing this to me over 15 years ago.


3,378 posted on 01/07/2021 3:18:08 PM PST by I_be_tc ( )
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