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Thanks for the email address and for the ping.

In my letter to this person, I suggest the use of a file box at the gate. If a passenger has something you really really don't want him or her to take on board, drop the item into a padded envelope and write the name of the passenger on an area of the envelope with protected dry erase. (Plastic panel, clear plastic cover over the panel.) The envelopes all go in a file box, and the file box is locked and put in with gate checked stuff (strollers, wheelchairs, and the like.) Theft would be harder.

Of course, my preference (also stated in the letter) would be for the Todd Beamers of this country to carry weapons on board. I can see a little airport shop selling guns and plane-safe ammunition.