What TSA screeners have recently found

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.ktvq.com/news/tsa-more-firearms-found-in-carry-ons/

TSA: More firearms found in carry-ons

Posted: Jan 9, 2012 2:17 PM by CBS News

<snip>The arrest came a day after Tim Donnelly, a California Assemblyman and an outspoken advocate for gun rights, was arrested for trying to bring a loaded handgun and magazine onto a flight at Ontario International Airport.

Donnelly, a self-proclaimed Tea Party Republican who lives in the Southern California mountain community of Twin Peaks, said he inadvertently left the gun in his briefcase.

On December 11 a gun was discovered during the X-ray screening process at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International, the world's busiest airport. TSA officials said they notified Atlanta police of the gun, and a small-caliber round was discharged inside the carry-on bag while officers were handling it. snip

On December 15 the co-founder of the Tea Party Patriots, Mark Meckler, was arrested at New York's LaGuardia Airport after he tried to check in for a Delta flight to Detroit with a locked gun box containing a Glock pistol and 19 cartridges of ammunition.

more stuff at link

[goforit]

1. And the home grown terrorist tea party continues their stupidity.

[DrDan]

2. our obsession is growing . . .

". . .in 2011 the TSA said it found 1,238 firearms - nearly four a day on average - at airport checkpoints across the nation. In the summer of 2010 a TSA blog post had reported that security personnel were finding an average of two weapons a day."

[NNN0LHI]

3. Seems like they are testing the system for vulnerabilities

Knowing what can and what can't be smuggled past TSA is very valuable information for someone to have.

Don

[DrDan]

4. and at what sites and what demographic

then again, it could be just more gun-idiocy at work

[RC]

5. Not really. This country is awash in guns.

No need to try to get one on an airplane. That is just stupid.
And as for bringing a plane down, become a baggage handler or rent a van and park it past the end of the runway for a fast getaway after using one of the guns this country is awash in.

[DrDan]

6. there are a lot of gunners who just cannot be physically separated from their weapon - whether

stupid or not.

They need them in parks, in schools, in churches, in bars - everywhere.