Los Angeles is a VERY crowded place. There are probably people LIVING closer to the airport than this man was when he was stopped.
My family spent a few hours at an In-n-Out Burger place which is immediately under the landing approach for LAX. It is fun to see the planes up close. Anybody with a firearm in Kalifornia could visit the same place without any expectation of being checked for any reason whatever.
Are you one of those people who think we have a "weapons" problem instead of a "criminal" and "terrorist" problem? Americans need to be encouraged to have weapons wherever illegal immigrant terrorists are able to have them.
People aren’t understanding my point.
I am not saying this guy is wrong. I am not saying California is right for its very bizarre gun laws (if interpreted as the officials are interpreted here would mean you could never transport one as pointed out upthread).
I am just saying, as a frequent flier, that airports today are very paranoid places and you should figure that all laws will be interpreted against you the citizen.
It ain’t necessarily right — but it is very much so.