Posted on 05/05/2012 10:08:01 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
TSA Unable To Detect 33% Of Land Mines Sent Through Security
A mechanical engineer from the Army's Picatinny Arsenal in New Jersey was stopped by TSA officers at Newark Airport after they found two Claymore mines in her bag. This would be a victory for the TSA had they not just let the woman's co-worker through with a similar mine in their checked baggage.
Which government agency deserves your scorn, the one whose employees tried to bring anti-personnel mines (even inert ones) on a plane or the one whose employees didn't detect a third of them?
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Oh, I would never argue that federal laws make logical sense, especially concerning firearms.
The issue with AR lowers is hilarious, as all the lower really is, is a trigger housing and a magazine guide. An upper can be loaded and fired (disable the gas system) as a single shot, without the lower. But as you point out, the ATF has decided that the lower is “the gun”.
Probably get a one man show in a NYC art gallery. :-) I have always thought that sometimes an artist just needs a gimmick. I may have just been handed mine. “Painted with terrorist brushes”.
Well, it is a “LAND” mine. No problem in the air.
“No problem in the air.”
600 or 700 1/8” steel ball bearings traveling at 4000 feet per second in whichever direction you pointed the claymore DOES make one an effective anti-aircraft weapon against low flying aircraft.
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