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YOU wouldn't be carrying a loaded gun in your carry on bag at the airport. You carry it when/where it might be needed, and you know better than to carry it in a place where it is not allowed. The guy at the airport was either very dumb or was planning something IMO.
AS STATED, carrying a loaded gun in carry on baggage was not the question.
The question is if a gun is loaded, does that mean that person is planning something? As stated in posts before, this might be a situation where they forgot they were carrying.....just as we have situations of people forgetting their kid is in the car.
The man has been identified publicly and authorities are still searching for him
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ATLANTA (AP) — A passenger awaiting a search at the Atlanta airport’s main security checkpoint reached in his bag and grabbed a firearm, and it went off, causing chaos among travelers and prompting a temporary FAA ground stop on flights Saturday afternoon, officials said. The man fled.
The man, later identified as a convicted felon, ran with the gun from the checkpoint and escaped out an airport exit, the Transportation Security Administration said. Authorities said it was not an active shooter incident and described the discharge as accidental.
Police said later they had issued a warrant for the arrest of the passenger, 42-year-old Kenny Wells.
It amazes me that after 20 years, people still try to take firearms on an airplane. I heard a report that approximately 4500 firearms have been confiscated so far this year by TSA.
The airport shooting is tragic. Felons aren't supposed to have guns, their own or anyone else's. But criminals ignore gun laws.
Joe - Every accidental shooting, every one, is with a supposedly unloaded gun. The goober prosecutor had the bolt closed and his finger on the trigger. One never trusts that a gun is unloaded.
1) His finger was on the trigger while he was handling the weapon. FACT
2) HE did not personally open the action and ensure that it was in fact unloaded. No one that has any knowledge of gun safety does so. If someone hands you a gun, and even if you watched them unload and clear it-you do it yourself. It is your responsibility. He acted negligently. FACT
3) I didn't say he threatened the jury with it, as your "fact check" counters. I said he "swept" the courtroom, meaning pointed the moving muzzle of the rifle, at people. One he did not perform a basic safety check on, and had his finger on the trigger of. In addition to clearing rifle, he should have had the bolt open (locked in the rearward position).
The man is an irresponsible fool and should be held responsible. ANY other civilian would be prosecuted.
AS STATED, carrying a loaded gun in carry on baggage was not the question.
The question is if a gun is loaded, does that mean that person is planning something? As stated in posts before, this might be a situation where they forgot they were carrying.....just as we have situations of people forgetting their kid is in the car.
We are rather frazzled brain these days..........
Did you read the article, the gun showed up in the x-ray meaning he didn't declare it and it was loaded and he lunged for it at which point it discharged. So your defense is the person wasn't planning something.
Even if he did forget which it appears he did not we live in a pretty sad nation. People forget and leave laptops and other restricted items in their carry-on but forgetting you left a loaded gun in your luggage, come on what world do you live in.
Turns out this was a felon and he fled the airport.
What part of "Shall not be Infringed" don't you understand.
Forbidding a person from carrying a loaded gun (or unloaded either) on the passenger cabin of an airplane is not an infringement of your 2nd Amendment rights. TSA says it's OK to pack it, unloaded, in your checked baggage. That's good enough.
I agree with you. That guy in Atlanta was planning something. That gun was loaded.
I was responding to that other poster who tried to change the subject to how one could fly and take a gun along.
I was responding to a poster who seemed to be under the impression that passengers can never travel with guns.
There is an astounding and MIND NUMBING lack of knowledge regarding firearms, yet everyone thinks they are an expert on the law. I was explaining that guess what? You can legally travel by plane with a firearm.
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