Posted on 01/14/2019 8:18:24 AM PST by EdnaMode
The Washington Post Democracy Dies in Darkness Try 1 month for $1 Sign In Newsletters & Alerts Gift Subscriptions Contact Us Help Desk Gridlock Passenger with gun made it through TSA checkpoint in Atlanta and onto Delta flight TSA denied that the lapse was due to staffing shortages related to the government shutdown.
A Transportation Security Administration employee checks in travelers at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Jan. 7. (John Bazemore/AP) By Faiz Siddiqui January 13 at 11:17 PM A passenger made it through a Transportation Security Administration checkpoint with a gun on Jan. 2, boarding a Delta Air Lines flight at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and flying to Tokyo, authorities said Sunday.
TSA confirmed the incident in a statement Sunday night but denied it was related to callouts stemming from the government shutdown, as hundreds of airport screeners are working without regular pay.
“TSA has determined standard procedures were not followed and a passenger did in fact pass through a standard screening TSA checkpoint with a firearm,” the agency said of the incident. “TSA has held those responsible appropriately accountable.”
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At tthe same time, Canada is screaming...no more immigrants.
Right after 911 I made it all the way to Fort Bragg and back with a bag of .357magnum shells in my carry on bag. I forgot to take them out when I traveled to Nevada to look at some property.I was shocked and relieved. I didn’t get hassled but at the same time my confidence in security took a nosedive.
TSA clowns ALWAYS required my teenage daughters to be patted down. My wife would have to talk me off the ledge every time. My rage was obvious to every single one of those dink’s.
It’s all kabuki theatre and does not make anyone safer in the slightest. When some freak is feeling up my kid while a Somali that speaks no English is loading the baggage...ugggghhh!
I thought I saw an article the other day that said Canada wants 1 mil more immigrants by the year 2020. Am I seeing things?
but...I flew last weekend and the crackerjack TSA security professionals successfully prevented me from getting a tube of Chapstick through security!!
They’d have groped out a gun on little old grandma or a hot little 16 year old.
It was privatized. Remember Argenbright, circa 2002?
A few years ago I got stopped at check in...they found one lone bullet in a small bag... (my husband’s that I borrowed and did not check before using).
I thought it was federalized with union representation. The Dems insisted because of 9/11.
By Faiz Siddiqui
If he got thru security, how did they find out that he had a gun at all? Did he pull it out and wave it around on the plane?
Follow-up on ?how did they know? I read the rest of the article. So why did the passenger tell anyone that he was carrying a gun? Was this a sting?
legal vs illegal
I don’t believe this either.
“...and flying to Tokyo...”
If it’s true, this guy will spend a long time in a Japanese prison reflecting on his crime.
Actually, more TSA agents called in sick last year (during a comparable week studied) than did this year during the shut-down. Funny they are not reporting that.
Yup, they took my Yoplait bc - you never know if yogurt can bring a plane down. Better safe than sorry. Oh, and the jam my sister had made from her peaches. dang
Indeed we have security at the air ports and little at the border.
He was going into Japan. If Japanese customs catches you with a gun or drugs for that matter you go to a Japanese jail. He may have weighed the options and decided it was the lesser of 2 evils to be stopped as he got off and sent back to fight the charges in the U.S.
It’s not about “catching terrorists”
It’s about turning us into compliant sheep and telling us who is in charge.
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