Bluephoria Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/report-woman-got-loaded-gun-past-tsa-141712196.html At less than six inches and just under 10 ounces, the Ruger .380 is considered by gun owners to be a great little pocket pistol. So small, in fact, that you can sometimes get one onto an airplane. D'oh! Yep, the New York Daily News reports that a woman flew 938 miles from Orlando, Fla., to Newark, N.J., on Thursday with a loaded .380 in her purse. United flight 15 was airborne before she realized what she'd done?and airport screeners had missed. How the Daily News said it unfolded: She didn't tell anyone on the plane about the weapon during the flight, which left Florida at 8:19 a.m. But when she landed at Newark Airport at 10:24, she immediately told a Port Authority police officer. The newspaper identified the woman as a 37-year-old Orlando firefighter. New Jersey officials called Florida authorities, but the Daily News says the Essex County prosecutor declined to prosecute the woman because she self-reported the incident. "She was visibly upset. She said she had a license to carry it and just forgot it," said Al Della Fave, Port Authority police spokesman. "The [Port Authority] officer took possession of the handgun and made it safe." The Transportation Security Administration, meanwhile, had no immediate answers. "TSA is aware of this situation and is reviewing the circumstances," said Lisa Farbstein, a spokeswoman for the agency told the Daily News. Earlier this month, a poll found that nearly 46 percent of frequent fliers said they felt screening procedures were not effective in preventing acts of terrorism on an aircraft. But a separate poll reported that 54 percent of Americans (fliers and non-fliers) think the TSA is doing an excellent or good job of handling security screenings at airports. Yeaaaaaaaaa.... TSA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 If you ever think screening is going to be 100% effective without basically only allowing naked people to fly, you're wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluephoria Posted September 28, 2012 Author Share Posted September 28, 2012 I don't think anyone thinks screening is 100% effective.... ....but a Swiss army knife is one thing. A loaded handgun is another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NYR2711 Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 ABC did a report last night on the TSA stealing things from people. They caught one guy who took an iPad, they have him on video taking it, and had it loaded with a GPS to find it, and tracked it back to his house. They confronted him in his yard and he said he never saw it. They also put an audible tracker in it and they activated it, and you could hear it in his house. The guy then says that his wife had just bought it and made up some other story. The guy was fired, but these TSA workers really are the worst. They are worse than the metermaids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 I don't think anyone thinks screening is 100% effective.... ....but a Swiss army knife is one thing. A loaded handgun is another. A loaded handgun smaller than the palm of your hand. It's not like a .357 got overlooked. This thing is barely bigger than a Swiss army knife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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