Posted on 08/14/2002 2:17:23 PM PDT by NEWwoman
Wyoming man with loaded gun arrested at San Jose airport Source: kcbs Publication date: 2002-08-14
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) -- A Wyoming man arrested after airport security screeners discovered a loaded semi-automatic handgun in his carryon luggage was being held in Santa Clara County jail Tuesday night.
William Simmons, 57, was arrested around 2:45 Tuesday afternoon at Mineta San Jose International Airport after a screener found the gun in his luggage and notified police, said Officer Joseph Deras, a spokesman with the San Jose Police Department.
Simmons was being held on charges of possessing a concealed loaded firearm, Deras said. Simmons was uncooperative with police and had to be forcibly arrested, he said. Simmons was taken to a nearby hospital after complaining he was hyperventilating. He was examined and released, Deras said.
The airport was not evacuated because security screeners found the weapon before Simmons was past the checkpoint, Deras said.
(10:35p.m.)
The jet engine turbines are driving the pressurization mechanism. There's plenty of pressure to go around.
And great idea; we only allow Freepers to board aricraft aith guns on the hip! What a novel idea! And laws are laws, it doesn't matter whose they are. I don't think you missed my point, did you?
His advice to the mechanics, as a time saver while the aircraft was under heavy check in the hangar, was in order to pressure check the sealant around the new aft bulkhead was to seal off the aft half of the aircraft - from the interior at about the center tank area - with speed tape and tarpulin! LOL! Sure thing!
Now I know you are teasing me, so no more acting serious, okay?!!
We're in complete agreement.
In the year before 9/11, I flew about 20K miles, with plans to fly as many this year.
Since 9/11, I have flown zero miles. And I don't intend to fly anytime soon either. There isn't anywhere that I need to go that I can't simply drive to.
If our Rights were recognized at the airports, I'd probably buy a ticket just for the hell of it and take a short vacation out West somewhere.
But since that's probably not going to happen, I'll just watch as they go bankrupt, which I think the gov't wants to happen so that they can nationalize them.
A bullet hole in an airline is generally "no big deal" according to the stuff I've read by airplane engineers. Also, there is ammo available that will fragment on impact, so it's a moot point.
It is certainly not as bad as taking a Sidewinder missile up the ass, which is the current "policy", if it can even be called such.
Can you say "Aloha Airlines!"?
Yeah, the "evil handguns" are capable of making a 30 foot hole. I've even heard that many of the evil handguns can shoot bullets that can travels hundreds of miles, piercing anything in it's path. They are even known to just "go off" for no reason.
Time to ban them all. It's for the children.
I believe that would depend on where it went.
Are those like the shootouts that occured over parking spaces when CCW laws passed in 34 states? The liberals promised those, but they never happened.
Or the gun battles involving shoppers in the grocery store check out lines? The liberals promised that as well.
Or is it going to be like the "Wild, Wild West" (which is exagerrated to start with), with gun duels? The liberals promised that would happen as well.
I think you're simply anti-gun and anti-2nd amendment based on your rationale for those positions.
Do a search here for any article involving CCW laws under consideration. In nearly every article, there is some liberal predicting a scenario like the ones I listed. I simply picked their favorite three to cite.
As a former Marine and avid Gun owner I ask you "are you nuts"?
If it was a simple mistake as you assert then he should have freely admitted his mistake and gone away with the Police quietly...he was uncooperative and as a result of his actions, was treated the way he was.
"I'm sure if it had been calmly pointed out, he could have unloaded it and checked it into baggage. (Though that clearly is not the policy anymore. He has to be made a criminal."
He was a criminal the minute he put the weapon in his luggage, loaded and put it through one of the machines.
It was by definition a concealed weapon.
"Also, I wish this man had been aboard one of the jets that flew into the WTC or Pentagon."
Grow the Hell up.
RedBloodedAmerican: "To your last sentence; yes"
I rest my case.
What's odd to me is I know many liberals (including relatives) who are adamant about allowing passengers to have concealed weapons onboard. So is it a "Liberal v Conservative" thing?
A few years ago, being "uncooperative" actually meant being uncooperative. That's not the case anymore, thanks to the militarization of the police coupled with the ignorant fools working airport security. "Uncooperative" means whatever they want it to mean.
Anyway, in the current police state environment, being "overly cooperative" will be deemed suspicious as well. Heads you win. Tails I lose.
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