Here's a confidential picture of the truck's driver from the recent LAX Event File.
Posted on 01/09/2009 3:17:00 PM PST by Beaten Valve
That is correct. Anyone who can legally own a gun can check it in at an airport (assuming it is in a proper container) and have it back to you at your destination.
Stupidity. Guns and ammo must be separated and both must be in separate locked storage if placed in the bed of a light truck. The locked box containing the ammo can be inside the locked box holding the firearms.
What authority do they use to check the cars? What’s the PC?
Do they ask permission to search, or just search?
Ed
Ummm it wouldn't happen to be a shipping container would it? Was it locked? Maybe he was going to a gun show to sell, maybe he is a collector and is moving his collection or maybe he was meeting someone there for a private sale!
FBI, Justice: El Al attack was terrorism
Ruling backs previous report on 2002 airport shooting
Saturday, April 12, 2003 Posted: 12:25 AM EDT (0425 GMT)
Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, shown in this undated handout photo, attacked an El Al ticket counter in what U.S. authorities have ruled a terrorist attack related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, an FBI spokesman said.
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — The FBI and the Department of Justice have agreed with a previous federal conclusion that a shooting at an Israeli airline ticket counter last year fit “the definition of terrorism,” an FBI spokesman said Friday.
In September, federal investigators determined that the shooting at the El Al ticket counter at Los Angeles International Airport on July 4, 2002, was a terrorist act carried out by a lone gunman bent on becoming a martyr.
Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, a 41-year-old Egyptian national, opened fire at the airport, killing two Israelis and wounding four others before being shot dead by a security guard for the Israeli airline.
The earlier report concluded that Hadayet hoped to influence U.S. government policy in favor of the Palestinians.
I hate it when this happens. Once, I forgot to remove some 357 magnum rounds from my carry on bag...
Is owning and transporting a gun collection against the law now? What if he is a dealer going to a gun show?
What is this "checkpoint" business? We have martial law in effect? Newly heightened terrorist alert we have been told about?
This should give conservatives the shivers - the pictures appear to be on a main boulevard, not the airport premises.
I suspect this guy is being waterboarded as we speak.
Can’t take the chance that there isn’t a planned attack on several US airports on 1/20/09...while Obama is taking The Oath.
They have check points set up at the various entrances to LAX and search random vehicles; usually anything large like a van or other vehicle that could possibly be concealing something. I have seen them ask people to open their trunks too.
I drove my SUV through a couple of days ago and had to “STOP”, but was quickly waived through by an officer.
I am unaware of what Federal, State statue "weapons transportation violations" fall under.
"Thirty handguns and seven rifles, plus fully loaded ammunition magazines were found in the same container in the back of his pickup truck," Castles said.
Guy was carrying 37 weapons and based on the article they were not loaded.
Maybe the guy is a gun dealer?
Here's a confidential picture of the truck's driver from the recent LAX Event File.
I looked in the Constitution and I couldn't find the part limiting how many guns a Citizen can own. Perhaps you could enlighten me about that.
BTW, welcome to Free Republic.
Good reasoning. And the bag limit is 37 so he brought 37 guns. Yep, makes sense.
Let’s be realistic here. He was entering the airport, if he had plans of transporting them via an airline, common sense says you call ahead and give notice of your intent. Arriving unanounced with a truck full of guns and ammunition into a sensitive area is not a good idea.
Check-in Clerk: “Did you pack your bags yourself, Sir?”
“Did anyone give you anything to carry on board with you?”
Traveller: “Why yes, They must have. I just don’t know where these 37 guns came from!”.
Looks like your average business traveller.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.