Posted on 05/15/2004 12:22:55 PM PDT by TERMINATTOR
Loaded handgun and extra ammo found in Columbus passenger's bag.
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - A woman was arrested at Port Columbus International Airport on Thursday when security found a loaded gun and additional ammunition in her carry-on bag, authorities said.
Janis Printz, 52, of suburban Powell, will be charged with attempting to take a weapon onto an airplane, said Thomas Rice, airport federal security director.
Printz was released Thursday evening after being questioned, said Scott Lorenzo, a manager with the Transportation Security Administration.
The maximum sentence upon conviction of the federal charge is 10 years in prison, and Printz could also face a fine of up to $7,500, Lorenzo said.
Printz and her husband were traveling to Detroit on Northwest Flight 1475, Rice said. Agents at a terminal security checkpoint noticed the .38-caliber handgun in Printz's carry-on as it went through the X-ray machine.
Authorities found five rounds of ammunition in the weapon and 11 additional rounds in the bag, Rice said.
Rice said he believed Printz had a permit for the gun.
"That doesn't matter. If you do have a permit to carry in Ohio, you can't carry it into the airport and attempt to take it on the plane in your carry-on luggage," he said.
Unloaded firearms can be transported in the cargo hold of an airplane when the owner declares it with the airline and puts it in a locked gun case, Rice said.
The law allowing Ohioans to carry concealed guns went into effect April 8. In the past two weeks, authorities have confiscated two guns at Port Columbus. A man with a loaded gun was arrested at the airport May 5.
Between 2002 and May 5, there were four incidents of people going through airport security checkpoints with guns, Rice said. He said it was too soon to say if the latest incidents had anything to do with the new concealed carry law.
I guess equal protection under the law, is a thing of the past.
Got that right...
Some citizens are more equal than others.
Meanwhile back on the ranch, caravans of contraband are hauled across the open boarder, and seems nobody is there to ask any questions since all our officers are stationed at the air terminals confiscating toenail clippers and body searching grandma.
What, you just got the memo? It has been this way for too long. And I don't see a change coming.
On a side note, I would be curious to know whether she thought she could legally do this, or if she made a mistake in leaving the gun in her carry on.
Another person charged with "keeping and bearing arms".
Molon Labe!
More "zero-tolerance" crap.
Find out why she had the firearm in her bag. If she is a terrorist or criminal, then try and execute her. However, if she is simply a law-abiding RKBA citizen who forgot about the firearm in her bag (as seems to be the case, since she was released after questioning), allow her to repack the firearm into her checked baggage and put her on the next plane.
Thanks for the post, Terminattor!
I would say that she knows the law about carrying firearms onto airplanes, as does everyone in the U.S., and she should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The same should, but frequently doesn't, apply to those Congressmen and Police Chiefs.
Truly this isn't a 2nd amendment issue.
?and what ever happened to the politicain a few weeks ago that "forgot" about the pistol in his carry on????????????
ANSWER: slap on the wrist, don't do it again.
Yes it is.
she should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law
Let's just clarify a point -
She can be prosecuted for any infringement of the CONSTITUTIONAL laws.
That crappy little law needs to be in the trash.
Besides - a gun or knife is not necessary to kill anyone - I can do it with your glasses, my shoelaces, a rolled up magazine, and I can think a quite a few ways to create an on the fly poison gas with common chemicals that ARE allowed aboard (basic chemistry)
The only way to assure 100% safety? Fly NAKED and hog-tied!
We hope you enjoy your flight.....
Is she not one of the "people"? Is her right to bear arms being "infringed"?
If law-abiding citizens like her had been permitted to bear arms on 9/11, how many people would have died that day? How many buildings would have been destroyed?
Passing laws to disarm the law-abiding majority and make them helpless in the face of box-cutters is tyranny, pure and simple.
Okay, explain to me how it is. As far as I can tell no one is telling this lady that she can't own a firearm, she just can't carry a loaded firearm onto an airplane.
The FAA has accommodated those wishing to transport firearms by allowing them to be unloaded and locked up in the cargo hold of the airplane. There is not one valid reason to carry the loaded weapon, with additional ammunition, onto the plane.
"A law repugnant to the Constitution is void." --Marbury v Madison
"A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed." -- Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
It is a Second, Fourth, and Fourteenth Ammendment issue.
As endless lines of trucks with unknown cargos enter through Mexico, as the epic conga-line of millions of illegals, from God knows where continue to flood into our country.....
Your idea makes too much sense. Better to just keep the serfs defenseless and believing that the government will protect them.
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