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N&O: Gun seizures on the rise at RDU and other airports
“I said, ‘Oh gosh, did I leave my knife in it?’ ” recalls McCullen, a Beaufort businessman. “She said, ‘It doesn’t look like a knife.’ I said, ‘Oh jeez, did I leave my gun in it?’
Yes. McCullen had come to RDU on Feb. 14 packing a .45 Taurus revolver loaded with .410 shotgun shells, a formidable weapon marketed as “The Judge.” He says he meant to leave it at home.
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Ed Nicely of Whispering Pines owns a gun shop in Vass. He was chagrined when the TSA screener at RDU found a .22 caliber over-and-under derringer in his carry-on bag Jan. 14.A man had given it to him at a Charlotte gun show two months earlier, he says. He had forgotten about it. He overlooked it that morning when he packed his bag “in the dark, to keep from waking my wife,” for a gun show in Las Vegas.
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“It just slipped my mind,” said McCullen, now 49.
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“That day, it was just an oversight,” Lang said. “I didn’t realize it was in the bag.”
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“We’ve become such an armed society that people actually aren’t thinking about the fact that they’re carrying weapons with them,” Willoughby said. “That’s a little bit sobering, to think that we are so accustomed to carrying a firearm with us that we often don’t think about it or realize that we have it.”
http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/08/03/3080823/gun-seizures-on-the-rise-at-rdu.html##storylink=cpy
Yes. McCullen had come to RDU on Feb. 14 packing a .45 Taurus revolver loaded with .410 shotgun shells, a formidable weapon marketed as “The Judge.” He says he meant to leave it at home.
....
Ed Nicely of Whispering Pines owns a gun shop in Vass. He was chagrined when the TSA screener at RDU found a .22 caliber over-and-under derringer in his carry-on bag Jan. 14.A man had given it to him at a Charlotte gun show two months earlier, he says. He had forgotten about it. He overlooked it that morning when he packed his bag “in the dark, to keep from waking my wife,” for a gun show in Las Vegas.
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“It just slipped my mind,” said McCullen, now 49.
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“That day, it was just an oversight,” Lang said. “I didn’t realize it was in the bag.”
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“We’ve become such an armed society that people actually aren’t thinking about the fact that they’re carrying weapons with them,” Willoughby said. “That’s a little bit sobering, to think that we are so accustomed to carrying a firearm with us that we often don’t think about it or realize that we have it.”
http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/08/03/3080823/gun-seizures-on-the-rise-at-rdu.html##storylink=cpy
Gollygeewhizzakers, it just slipped my li'l ol' mind!
Responsible, my ass.
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