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Man Blames Wife for Packing a Revolver into his Carry-on Bag
AmmoLand ^ | September 28, 2023 | Dean Weingarten

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.

In 2022, there were 853 million passenger enplanements in the United States. Assuming 6.6% of them have carry permits,


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An incredibly high level of compliance. Way over 99.99% compliance.
1 posted on 10/01/2023 5:43:49 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Blames wife....as it’s always been....back to Adam and Eve.


2 posted on 10/01/2023 5:46:36 AM PDT by xp38
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To: marktwain

Who’s getting the blame for any contraband discovered at the much secured southern “border”? “Mamacita packed it senor.”


3 posted on 10/01/2023 5:47:40 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: xp38

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.


4 posted on 10/01/2023 5:55:28 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: marktwain
A few decades ago, back when they started looking and Using X-ray, a manager of a business who apparently was not well liked, went on an airplane trip. The briefcase was run through the X-ray machine. Bingo a gun was displayed on the X-ray. More guards, man pulled aside, briefcase opened and searched. No gun? Briefcase run back through X-ray machine. GUN showed up again! Ok more guards, more searching, still no gun. WTF, what type of person do they have? Hit man, spy? Again searched the briefcase, almost tearing it apart. Finally a guard found a metal silhouette of a gun in slipped into a folder....

Unliked manager missed his business flight. He ran a machine shop...... returned and fired a machinist.....

5 posted on 10/01/2023 6:11:04 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting….)
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To: marktwain

I dont touch the wife’s firearms and vice versa.


6 posted on 10/01/2023 6:36:28 AM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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Police confiscated the gun and cited the man on state charges.

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?

7 posted on 10/01/2023 6:36:44 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: Lockbox

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.


8 posted on 10/01/2023 6:53:58 AM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: xp38

Yeah next he’ll be asking his wife for his rib back.


9 posted on 10/01/2023 7:00:29 AM PDT by Vaduz (....)
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To: Lockbox

Heard it’s been done with a gun-shaped piece of tin foil inside a book.


10 posted on 10/01/2023 7:21:57 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: marktwain

I hate it when my wife does that…


11 posted on 10/01/2023 7:52:41 AM PDT by wny
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To: wny

U R funny.


12 posted on 10/01/2023 8:23:15 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (e allowed )
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To: xp38

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.”


13 posted on 10/01/2023 8:46:41 AM PDT by Right Brigade (It was better before they voted for whats his name,this must be the New World)
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To: marktwain

Have Gun
Won’t Travel


14 posted on 10/01/2023 9:20:44 AM PDT by bunkerhill7 (Don't shoot until you see the whites of their lies)
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To: xp38

This sounds like a Sam Kinison joke.


15 posted on 10/01/2023 4:58:43 PM PDT by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: Lockbox

“ Finally a guard found a metal silhouette of a gun in slipped into a folder....”

Wow that’s clever in a bad way!


16 posted on 10/01/2023 5:00:28 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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