“I have hard time seeing how anyone forgets they have a handgun in their luggage. “
I don’t. In a previous life I used to work for that agency at the airport that annoys people. We used to find guns on a regular basis.
1. Elderly black woman with a .25 in her purse tried to pass it through x-ray. I didn’t fault her for carrying it. She probably needed it but the popo took it away and cited her
2 A woman with 2 small children and a granny with a walker. The mother had a snubbie revolver in a plastic bag in the diaper wipes bag. The only thing that kept her from being arrested was that CPS was full that evening so no place for her kids. The popo took the gun and wrote her a citation to appear.
She had the gall on the return trip to go up to the popo and demand her gun back. I was talking to the cop when she did that. He told her to GTFO and hire a lawyer for 10-15K so she could get her $500 gun back. She stormed off in a huff. LOL.
So someone being a dumb ass and leaving a gun in their carry on doesn’t surprise me at all.
Anymore (at least in Texas) if you get caught at screening you simply return the car to your vehicle and they issue a civil fine/summons
Happened to a buddy of mine last year who is in several flights a week in state and in a rush forgot he’d put it in his laptop bag