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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A passenger with a gun would not be a bother to me as long as anyone who desired so could also carry his/her own gun.
Or my water!
Flying out of N.M. in Oct the TSA beech just knew I, an elderly grandma without even a parking ticket, was trying to blow up the plane (I fear flying because I FEAR bombs, crashes, mishaps, etc!) She went over my two Taos souvenir coffee cups with her wand checking for explosives! I wouldn’t know how, nor would I want to blow up ANYTHING! Then she used her magic wand on my New Mexico chili powder... as if these are very unusual items, souvenirs, from N. M.! I was on 2 canes, terrible back injury, elderly granny...
She had first asked me how to open my suitcase. It is a run of the mill suitcase, nothing fancy, she is an idiot! I showed her, then she said Please don’t touch your suitcase. She was just being rude and power hungry...
Then she said OK you can go...
BTW I had PRE CHECK and wasn’t supposed to have to take off shoes, take phone and computer out of bag, etc. She made me do all that and searched my bag...
She left it hanging open unable to be closed. There I was, using two canes, no way to carry my bag to a seat where I could REPACK IT...
I should have gotten her name and badge number and reported her!
and we have to fly there a lot because some of our family moved to Santa Fe.
I am to happy she isn’t getting paid!!!
It is dumbfounding to live in a country where building a border wall seems to be immoral and yet killing babies is not a big deal.
On a recent commercial flight, I observed a man carrying a handgun onto the plane. He was careless, I guess.
Can you imagine a country where plastic straws are a crisis, but child trafficking and smuggling drugs across a border isn’t?
Yep - no mention of all the crap that’s been getting through over the years as they “test the system”....
So if mere negligent TSA employees can commit such an error, imagine what corrupt treasonous TSA employees can get away with intentionally. Anyone have a “clean” identity for sell, one that can pass the TSA background checks? You can be sure the terrorists have and are looking into exactly that possibility.
Well stricter background checks and a 10 day wait and no larger than 5 round magazines would have stopped this from ever happening. Or something.
If they privatize it, it will open a number of worm cans due to lack of control of the standards and allow the states and lower governments to have a say in it’s operations. Not to mention the unions input at each location. There will be no continuity between the hiring standards, training, and acceptance of locally employed agents as each one will be partially controlled by employers outside of the government or FAA.
The problem is not the standards being used. It is that the government is shut down and they are using essential only thus effecting their capacity. But that’s what a shut down does. It creates a burden for everyone down the line to the voter. And it forces the voter to put pressure on the people making the decision to force one. That’s why this article is written the way it is. So in a roundabout way, it is caused by the shutdown. Otherwise that location are a bunch of screw-ups, period. And if they can’t perform the tasks they do, and they aren’t that tough, then the airport shuts down. And in time, all interstate commerce will, too, as the government cannot process the needs timely due to manning restrictions.
It’s a slippery slope. And all congress has to do is approve the expenditure of $5M that is already available. It just depends on how long they want to stick to their empty guns until their efforts to gaining on citizen voting numbers goes the other way for their blame.
rwood
If they privatize it, it will open a number of worm cans due to lack of control of the standards and allow the states and lower governments to have a say in it’s operations. Not to mention the unions input at each location. There will be no continuity between the hiring standards, training, and acceptance of locally employed agents as each one will be partially controlled by employers outside of the government or FAA.
The problem is not the standards being used. It is that the government is shut down and they are using essential only thus effecting their capacity. But that’s what a shut down does. It creates a burden for everyone down the line to the voter. And it forces the voter to put pressure on the people making the decision to force one. That’s why this article is written the way it is. So in a roundabout way, it is caused by the shutdown. Otherwise that location are a bunch of screw-ups, period. And if they can’t perform the tasks they do, and they aren’t that tough, then the airport shuts down. And in time, all interstate commerce will, too, as the government cannot process the needs timely due to manning restrictions.
It’s a slippery slope. And al;l congress has to do is approve the expenditure of $5M that is already available. It just depends on how long they want to stick to their guns until their efforts to gaining on voting numbers goes the other way for their blame.
rwood
Sorry Marajade and FR, had a power flux flicker and my computer sent it twice.
rwood
So if he got through without detection, how did they catch him?
But did they find his illegal nail clippers?
Just asking, have you considered AMTRAK? I know it takes longer but it is cheaper.
Just for grins and giggles I did a price comparison.
Not knowing your particulars I chose a Houston to Albuquerque ticket.
AMTRAK was $247 one way.
Air travel was $401 roundtrip for coach, TSA massages and unpacking included. Baggage fees not included.
For me personally I think I would prefer the train. They can derail but they can’t fall out of the sky.
If time were a factor the airline would win out.
Why would that happen? They would still be monitored by the Feds.
Planned for sympathy to the sick, lame and lazy federal workers taking an all expense paid vacation. Paychecks will be in the mail although delayed. The shutdown is a sham because the workers still get paid for doing nothing. Wait isn’t that what government workers do?
Ain’t buying it either....smell of BS is all over this caper.
Who was it and how did they dind out the passenger had a gun?
Did he take his seat and announce “hey, I have a gun!”??
Did he whisper to the Flight attendant, “this is a gun in my pocket. I just had to see if I could get on a Delta flight?”
Show me a picture and a name and I still won’t believe the BS.
Well, most TSA employees are people (snark), and anywhere, private or government,that people are involved, things will be screwed up. It used to be that you could expect most adults would try to do their jobs well, but what with character, in general, slipping, the “spark of divinity” in not a few, has either failed to ignite, or has gone out, altogether.
Sometimes I think I should change my screen name to Debbie Downer, but I have placed my hope in the LORD, and His plan goes forward.
If you read the story, the entire point of the article was to blame the shutdown. The TSA is having none of it, providing facts that the reporter buries in later paragraphs that most people won’t read (or can’t read because of the paywall).
For example, the airport in question had exactly the same percentage of callouts on this day as they did last year on this day.
Turns out callouts go up around the Christmas holidays — which everybody knows, but the newspapers are ignoring.
The article also has to point out that guns DO occasionally make it through checkpoints (while saying it is “rare”).
The article doesn’t even bother to explain why the passenger reported himself, because they didn’t care about the gun, which caused no problems, they just cared about attacking Trump for the shutdown.
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