Man arrested after gun found in luggage at airport

[alp227]

Source: AP

Authorities say a man has been arrested at Sacramento International Airport after X-rays showed a loaded, unregistered handgun in his carry-on baggage.

Officials from the Transportation Security Administration tell the Sacramento Bee the man was headed to a Southwest Airlines flight from Sacramento to Tampa, Fla. when the .40-caliber Glock G23 was found in the bag.

TSA spokeswoman Ann Davis tells the newspaper the man said he forgot the weapon was in his bag. Davis says that's the answer security officials most often get when guns are found.

Read more: http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/state&id=8438832

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So a baggage X-ray found the gun, since the man didn't want to set off the metal detector by keeping the gun in his person. But according to the TSA, there's supposed to be a war on all passengers by treating them all as if they're the next 9/11 hijackers or this man.

[Joanie Baloney]

1. The key word here is "loaded"

I don't own guns but I would think most guns are stowed unloaded. Odd.

[RSillsbee]

2. I have three guns that I carry (Not all at once)

They stay loaded. My other guns are stored unloaded in a safe (actually the two loaded ones that I'm not carrying are locked up too.

[Joanie Baloney]

4. Huh

I guess if you're carrying it you are planning on using it? I'm just trying to grasp the logic.

[RSillsbee]

7. I'll try to be more clear

I own several guns; among them are three handguns that I generally carry. I don’t carry all three at once I alternate them depending on how I am dressed on a given day. Rather than loading and unloading them, which is hard on the magazine springs as well as the cartridges, I simply leave all three loaded.

Other than the gun I am carrying on a given day I lock all my guns in a gunsafe. I just happen to leave the two loaded when doing so.

Is that more clear?

[Joanie Baloney]

17. Yes, thanks

Just never thought about anyone carrying a gun (outside law enforcement) on a daily basis.

[RSillsbee]

24. I'm not law enforcement

I just happen to live in a state that recognizes the right of its citizens to bear arms

[RSillsbee]

3. Was the baggage carry on or checked?

after X-rays showed a loaded, unregistered handgun in his carry-on baggage.

Doe sCalifornia even have handgun registration? I know registration is illegal on the federal level. must be more ABC anti gun bull shit

[slackmaster]

14. California does have handgun registration, however federal law allows non-residents to travel...

...through the state, or even to visit with handguns that are not registered here if they follow certain laws and procedures.

Federal law requires that guns in checked baggage be declared, stored in a locked container, and they must be unloaded.

You have to be a very special person to be allowed to carry a firearm in carry-on baggage anywhere.

[MADem]

5. A man, eh? It wasn't Mrs. Lou Dobbs, then! She used the "I forgot" excuse, too. nt

[BiggJawn]

6. If you're an Indiana Congresscritter, and your name is John Hostettler...

You get away with it.

http://www.14news.com/Global/story.asp?S=1799771

60 days, suspended.

This is the bozo who told an office full of visiting breast cancer survivors that Gawd wouldn't have given them cancer if they hadn't killed their babies... Anti-Ghey and strongly pro-Dominionist.

Got his ass handed to him by Brad Ellsworth in 2006, now thinks he'll be a shoe-in for Eyebeen Baught's old seat.

See? it's OK if a ReTHUGlican does it...

[rocktivity]

10. And wasn't there a football coach who did the same thing?

Woot, here is is.

:eyes:
rocktivity

[BiggJawn]

15. Wow. The stupidity...

"I come home on a weekend from Austin training camp, and my daughter is there and has a bunch of people over. They've got three young kids running around the house, and there's a gun on the bed, so I throw it in my bag and start for the closet to hide it."

In Indiana, if you leave a gun where a child can get to it you commit a Felony.

I live alone, have no grandchildren, no friends with children, and even *I* know not to do that.

That carry-on must be a "Bag of Holding" if a gun can get lost in there...

[Grassy Knoll]

8. Now Why would he do that......

Maybe to play gotcha with the TSA under Obama ?
If he got caught during the Bush Admin. TSA would get a stamp,
a coin, or a face on Mt. Rushmore. Sad..But True.
Think about it, The CONS want you to believe only Cons can control
the war on terror.

[AllyCat]

9. This obviously wasn't in Wisconsin where he would be lauded as a hero

or a deer hunter.

[rocktivity]

11. Putting one in your checked luggage is stupid enough

why would anyone believe that there's nothing wrong with putting one in your CARRYON luggage -- loaded or not?

:crazy:
rocktivity

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

12. Nothing's wrong with having a gun in CHECKED luggage.

By law it must be unloaded, locked, and declared to the clerk at the time of check-in.
But otherwise, it's 100% legal to have a gun in your checked baggage.

I suspect this fool had it in his carry on luggage. Either way, if it was loaded it wouldn't matter.

[No Elephants]

21. You don't have to rely on suspicion. The part of the article quoted in the OP contains that info.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

23. Media nowadays is about a useful as a poopy-flavored lollipop.

Especially when it comes to techncal details.
Im always suspicious of the detils of a story until there is more corroberation.

[Evasporque]

13. Check out my new gun "click" "BOOM"..."oops forgot it was loaded...haha" nt

[underpants]

16. Probably one of those "Occupy the skies" people

next on Fox News

[Blandocyte]

18. Guns guns guns! Gotta have more guns!

Was he law enforcement? If not, probably more chance of being hit by lightning than needing a gun to defend himself. What an idiot.

[RSillsbee]

25. I've had cause twice to defend myself w/ a firearm.

No shots were fired in either case. Why would you deny me that right?

[boppers]

19. "didn't want to set off the metal detector"?

Where is that in the story? The guy claims he forgot the gun was in the bag.

[alp227]

20. Claiming he forgot is usually a lie

[boppers]

22. So it's an assumption.