Posted on 10/01/2023 5:43:49 AM PDT by marktwain
Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers found a .22 caliber revolver in a man’s carry-on bag at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. The revolver appears to be a North American Arms Black Widow .22 Magnum with Boot Clip grips. These are some of the smallest repeating pistols made. They carry five shots of .22 magnum cartridges, as can be seen in the TSA photograph of the pistol, which was discovered on September 21, 2023. From tsa.gov:
A King George, Va., man was cited by police after he was stopped by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) officers with a loaded handgun at one of the checkpoints at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport on Thursday, Sept. 21. The .22 caliber pistol was loaded with five bullets and was packed in the man’s carry-on bag.
The gun was caught as the man entered the security checkpoint. The X-ray unit alerted the TSA to take a closer look and inspect the carry-on bag, which was opened by police for a closer inspection. Police confiscated the gun and cited the man on state charges. The man blamed his wife and told officials that she packed his carry-on bag and did not know that he already had his loaded gun inside.
More than 22 million people have concealed carry permits in the United States. Over half the states in the United States have restored permitless carry, where no permit is required to carry a loaded handgun, concealed or openly. Those states have a population of about 150 million people. Roughly 6.6% of the entire population have carry permits, or 8.5% of adults.
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Blames wife....as it’s always been....back to Adam and Eve.
Who’s getting the blame for any contraband discovered at the much secured southern “border”? “Mamacita packed it senor.”
Heh, well, she was the first one fooled......
Still, you would have hoped that the weapon would come up in conversation beforehand.
A guy forgot about his pistol in his carryon right in front of me at Lambert 3 decades. I do believe he genuinely forgot but of course it was way before 09/11/2001.
Unliked manager missed his business flight. He ran a machine shop...... returned and fired a machinist.....
I dont touch the wife’s firearms and vice versa.
I always thought that the TSA has it own arrest powers, since large airports (at least the screening areas) are considered federal territory.
And National Airport Reagan Airport is owned by the feds ... not a lease or a shared space.
Just another sign of bad journalism, or did the TSA do him a small favor?
I’ve heard a few versions of that story over the years, including one in some spy novel (might have been Shibumi, but I’m not certain). Personally, I think it’s an urban legend.
Yeah next he’ll be asking his wife for his rib back.
Heard it’s been done with a gun-shaped piece of tin foil inside a book.
I hate it when my wife does that…
U R funny.
Was it a mistake or did she do it to him on purpose?
“Blames wife....as it’s always been....back to Adam and Eve.”
Have Gun
Won’t Travel
This sounds like a Sam Kinison joke.
“ Finally a guard found a metal silhouette of a gun in slipped into a folder....”
Wow that’s clever in a bad way!
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