Oh, the Places Your Gun Will Go!

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Pro-gun Georgia lawmakers want to make sure Americans exercising their Second Amendment right aren't arrested for accidentally trying to board airplanes with guns, Politico reports on Monday. Under the current law, permit-holding gun owners can take their gun with them if they follow procedures and check the gun with other stored luggage at the airport. If you try to take the gun on the plane with you, you'll be arrested. But! According to gun rights activists, gun owners are so used to carrying their guns they forget they have them. This leads to them getting arrested in security. And that's why lawmakers want to change the rules so that absentminded gun owners won't get arrested if they forget to check their guns, as long as they have a permit and are willing to leave the security line.

On the one hand, the TSA doesn't approve of this for their own safety, especially after a gunman killed one agent and injured four others at LAX last year. Also, responsible gun owners aren't impressed by people who forget about where their guns are. On the other hand, doesn't anyone care about the Constitution anymore? Gun rights activists across the country do, and they've been pushing for expanding gun carry laws, even in places that common sense might suggest are not good places for guns. Here's where the battle for the Second Amendment is being fought:

http://www.thewire.com/politics/2014/02/oh-places-your-gun-will-go/358167/

[iemitsu]

1. People seem to have lost the ability to reason their way through

complex issues.
And I guess, I would want a gun in that world too.

[rdharma]

2. This line sums it up.......

"Responsible gun owners aren't impressed by people who forget about where their guns are."

If you aren't aware that you are carrying a gun, you sure as hell shouldn't have one!

[sked14]

12. You couldn't be more right.

If you're so forgetful about having your firearm with you, then you have no business having one.

[billh58]

3. How long before some cowboy

with a gun shoots someone on an airplane at 30,000 feet? Common sense and CCW? Two of these things are not the same...

[shenmue]

4. I think so too

It's one of the things I've been dreading.

[sked14]

5. Except the only ones allowed to carry guns on a commercial airline

are law enforcement officers and pilots, so, I don't see how some cowboy will shoot someone on an airplane at 30,000 feet.

[billh58]

6. Hi there!

Say hello to Ranchemp for me when you see him -- okay?

[sked14]

7. I would if I knew what you were talking about.

Now, how about explaining how some cowboy would shoot someone in an airplane at 30,000 feet if only LEO and pilots are the only one's allowed firearms on commercial airlines?

[billh58]

8. Yeah, right.

Ranchemp is down at the pizza shop with WildBird and Tumtum.

Try following the OP: gun lobby trying to broaden CCW universe.

[sked14]

9. Ok, I get it,

you can't justify your comment so you throw out baseless.......what?
Nice talking to you.

[billh58]

10. Tell all of your buddies

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over in RKBA how you really told those "grabbers" a thing or two, okay?

[sked14]

11. I didn't tell you anything, you're the one who became hostile

when asked a perfectly legitimate question.
Here, let me ask one more time,
How can some cowboy shoot someone on an airplane at 30,000 feet when the only ones allowed to carry firearms on a commercial flight are LEO's and pilots?
The TSA has been pretty efficient at catching those that "forget" that their guns are in their luggage or in their coat pocket.

[rdharma]

16. Like this?

[sked14]

17. Ronald Raygun?

I think regs have considerly tightened up since and I don't think that was a commercial flight and to top it off, it was a stupid fucking thing to do.

[rdharma]

18. If these morons who attempt to bring guns through airport security aren't punished,......

.... they'll keep trying until they're successful.

[sked14]

19. Oh I agree with you,

not only should they be arrested and tried, they should lose their 2A right for the rest of their lives.

[Loudly]

13. If they have a permit, they shouldn't be arrested.

But their weapon should be confiscated and put to the cutting torch.

[sked14]

14. That's a hell of a good idea,

and their permit should be permanently revoked for just being plain stupid.

[Hoyt]

15. Well, so Georgia's legislature thinks gun toters are ignorant. Then, why do they make it easy

for ignorant people to tote in public?