[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

I wonder if the people caught had been previously successful in getting their firearms through security.

I'm inclined to think a good many of these caught carrying were agents testing the alertness of TSA. Wonder what the statistics are on prosecutions of the offenders.

[dennisw]

I can imagine the agent testing the TSA going —— “Psssst ...the loaded gun is in my right suit pocket you moron!”

[Polynikes]

When I was with that agency we had a women with 3 kids and a elderly mother with a walker try and bring a revolver through security, I think it was a .38. It was concealed in a baggie in the diaper wipes container.

The women was lucky. The cops wanted to arrest her but CPS was loaded that night so no place for the kids and the grandma seemed to have borderline dementia and no facility to take her was available.

They settled for taking the gun and citing her with an order to appear at a future date.

I was standing next to the police podium several weeks later when the same women came through but this time she approached from the direction of arriving flights. She demanded the cop give her gun back. He basically told her to GTFO and get a lawyer and after 10-15K in legal fees she may get her $500 gun back. She stomped off in a huff.

LOL the nerve of some people.

[SgtHooper]

Precisely. These are test results made to appear as detections on everyday travelers. Good call!!