Thought he could go through TSA security checkpoint with a freakin gun?
No. He was checking the bag in.
No...in checked baggage and disclosed to airline. Perfectly legal anywhere in the US...oh wait, this was New York.
"...he attempted to check a bag containing a handgun and ammunition...[he told] a Delta Air Lines employee that his luggage contained a locked box holding a firearm"
“ say he attempted to check a bag containing a handgun and ammunition. ”
He was following the rules for transporting a firearm. In checked bags, locked, unloaded, with ammo locked in a different container.
What he did was to bring a firearm into NY. And then trying to get out of NY with it.
It’s a bullshit charge for someone trying to do the right thing.
No, it was in his checked baggage, properly stowed and locked per Delta’s security precautions, and he notified them of same. I’ve done that frequently and it’s never a problem. Of course, I haven’t traveled to NYC.
“Thought he could go through TSA security checkpoint with a freakin gun?”
Some do. The only thing he did wrong was make it a carryon. I’m surprised if he told Delta he had it, they didn’t require him the check it into luggage but let him carry it on. They screwed up. He didn’t do what he was supposed to and they knew but screwed up at the original airport. That is if he actually told them he had it at the origin airport.
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